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School Funds
- Homeschool Compliance Homeschool Portfolio Requirements: What a Reviewer Accepts Three states name nearly the same portfolio contents and send them to three different readers. Who opens yours, on how much notice, and what volume cannot fix.
- ESAs & Vouchers Texas ESA Program: Tiers, Amounts, and the 2027-28 Window Who got a Texas Education Freedom Account for 2026-27, why the lottery left most eligible children waiting, what each setting pays, and what to gather next.
- Enrollment & Transfers Public School Open Enrollment: Waitlists and Denial Reasons Wisconsin answers on June 5, Minnesota on February 15, the DC lottery on March 27. What a district may legally refuse, and where next year's dates appear.
- Tax-Advantaged Accounts Coverdell ESA vs 529 Plans for K-12 Expenses The Coverdell still pays the uniform, the bus fee and the laptop. The expanded 529 does not. Where the two K-12 lists split, and the $2,000 ceiling behind it.
- Approved Expenses ESA Reimbursement Rejected: What to Fix and Resubmit An invoice alone is denied in Arizona, a bank statement fails in West Virginia, Venmo needs a screenshot in Utah. ESA receipt rules from the rejection side.
- Private & Microschools SSS and Clarity Financial Aid: What They Ask SSS charges $60, Clarity $65, and neither one awards a dollar. What the two forms dig into, how the NAIS methodology builds a number, and who may overrule it.
- Homeschool Compliance Homeschool Withdrawal Letter: Avoiding a Truancy Flag The child stops attending on a Tuesday. The filing lands Friday. Those three days are where truancy starts, and five states treat the gap differently.
- Enrollment & Transfers Leaving Public School for an ESA: And Coming Back An ESA ends the funding, not your address. What Arizona, Florida and Texas actually take away for 2026-27, what happens to the balance, and how re-entry works.
- Tax-Advantaged Accounts Federal Scholarship Tax Credit 2027: What Is Decided Thirty states are on the IRS list and the $1,700 credit is already in the code, but the rules deciding how a family applies are still unpublished.
- Records & Transcripts Homeschool Course Descriptions: How Detailed to Be One course written twice, thin and then the way admissions offices ask for it, plus the school profile and who may sign the counselor letter.
- Records & Transcripts Homeschool Transcript: What Goes On It and Who Signs Course names a registrar can map, a credit rule you can defend, a GPA next to its scale, and one graduation month that four other offices will read back to you.