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Homeschooling Laws for Washington (WA) - Legal Statutes, Notice of Intent, Testing, Record Keeping, etc.
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Washington (WA) State - Homeschooling Laws and Regulations
Washington: "Each parent whose child is receiving home-based instruction shall have the duty to: 1) File annually a signed declaration of intent to home school his or her child, including whether a certified person will be supervising the instruction; 2)Ensure that test scores or annual academic progress assessments and immunization records are forwarded to any public or private school to which the student may later transfer; 3) Ensure that a standardized achievement test approved by the state board of education is administered annually to the child by a qualified individual or that an annual assessment of the child's academic progress is written by a certificated person who is currently working in the field of education. If, as a result of the annual test or assessment, it is determined that the child is not making reasonable progress consistent with his or her age or stage of development, the parent shall make a good faith effort to remedy any deficiency. Wash. Rev. Code § 28A.200.010. All decisions relating to philosophy or doctrine, selection of books, teaching materials and curriculum, and methods, timing, and place in the provision or evaluation of home-based instruction shall be the responsibility of the parent except for matters specifically referred to in Wash. Rev. Code §§ 28A.200.010; 28A225.010. Wash. Rev. Code § 28A.200.020. Furthermore, the legislature recognizes that home-based instruction is less structured and more experimental in nature than instruction normally provided in a classroom setting. Therefore, the provisions relating to the nature and quantity of instructional and related educational activities shall be liberally construed. Wash. Rev. Code § 28A.225.010. Home-based instruction shall consist of planned and supervised instructional and related educational activities, including a curriculum and instruction in the basic skills of occupational education, science, mathematics, language, social studies, history, health, reading, writing, spelling, and the development of an appreciation of art and music, provided for a number of hours equivalent to the total annual program hours per grade level established for approved private schools under Wash. Rev. Code § 28A. 195.010. The instruction must be provided by the parent who is instructing only his or her own child and supervised by a certificated person; or provided by the parent who is instructing only his or her own child and who has earned either 45 college level quarter credit hours or its equivalent in semester hours or has completed a course in home-based instruction at a postsecondary institutions or vocational-technical institute; or provided by a parent who is deemed sufficiently qualified to provide home-based instruction by the superintendent of the local school district in which the child resides. Wash. Rev. Code § 28A.225.010." (Source: "State Regulation of Private Schools," Washington, by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Non-Public Education (2000).)
Home-Based Instruction: Main
The Washington State Board of Education: Home Based Instruction (PDF)
Washington State's Laws Regulating Home-Based Instruction: The 60-Page "Pink Book" (PDF)
Statutes: http://www.k12.wa.us/PrivateEd/HomeBasedEd/regulations.aspx
Statute: WAC 180-52-070: Approved Standardized Tests for Use by Students Receiving Home-based Instruction — Examples — Assistance.
Home-Based Instruction: State-provided Additional Resources
Homeschooling Conventions in Washington (WA)