Homeschool Compliance

Notice of intent, withdrawal letters, annual assessment, and the portfolio a reviewer has to sign off on — filing by filing, state by state.

Homeschool Compliance September 28, 2026 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. 17 min read
Homeschool Compliance August 28, 2026 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. 11 min read
Homeschool Compliance August 18, 2026 Notice of Intent to Homeschool: Who Wants It and When One state wants a notarized affidavit by August 1. One wants nothing at all. One only accepts the filing July through April. Find out which one yours is. 9 min read

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Caleb Ostrander has filed a notice of intent to homeschool in two states and put through roughly ninety ESA reimbursement claims, eleven of which came back rejected before he worked out what a reviewer is actually looking at. No law license, no teaching certificate, no program office behind him — he works from program handbooks, the statutes those handbooks cite, and rejection notices themselves, and every rule on this site carries the state name and the school year it applies to.

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