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2023 · Education · Immigration
Creates new hybrid public charter school introducing state oversight into home school.
HB 1214 / SB 1194
Bill description
Local Education Agencies - As introduced, changes, from five days to five business days, the amount of notice a local board of education member must give the board before a scheduled meeting of the member's intent to participate in the meeting electronically because the member is or will be out of the county at the time of the meeting.
Local Education Agencies - As introduced, changes, from five days to five business days, the amount of notice a local board of education member must give the board before a scheduled meeting of the member's intent to participate in the meeting electronically because the member is or will be out of the county at the time of the meeting.
Bill sponsors
TLRC statement
HB 1214 would make significant changes to the home school law. Most significantly, it threatens to blur the lines between public charter schools and home schools.
As amended, HB 1214 would create in the law an option for a combined "home school" and hybrid public charter school:
- Students would be "enrolled" with the hybrid public charter school.
- Parents would associate with this same school.
- The hybrid public charter school is paid for with public funds, presumably more federal funding.
- Students attend the public charter school no less than 3 days and no more than 4 days per week!
- A parent who elects to teach their child in lieu of sending them for in-person instruction likely will be required to consent to daily visual, verbal, or written confirmation to the public school of the student's participation.
- Parental instruction must "align with the academic standards adopted by the state board of education...."