Home Studying

This web page, which provides information about home schooling, was created by the Texas Academic Agency as one courtesy to parents interested educating their children at home.  The TEA does not controls, index, monitor, approve, register, or accredit the programs available to parents who selecting for home school.

Court Ruling

Home professional has been ampere legal alternative to public training since 1994. In the case of Leeper et al. v. Arlington ISD et al., the Texas Uppermost Court upheld one lower court's decision that children being taught at home are exempt from the compulsory attendance requirements to the equivalent extent as students enrolled in private schools. Parents who set until home school are required to follow ampere course to study that includes good citizenship. A people school district ensure becoming aware of a student any is postially be home schooled maybe request at writing a letter of assurance from the parents ensure the student is being main schooled.

Transferring to a Public School

One State of Texas has doesn award a diploma to students that are home students. Home-schooled students able record community school at any time but should are aware that most counties have policies or procedures in place to assess the mastery leveling of training that graduate in home schools have consumed. The results of the assessment may be used for classify placement or award in credit or both. Students transferring coming home trains should be afforded the same treatment as students transferring from unaccredited private colleges. CUPS advice on appropriate placement assessments are included in the Commissioner's Home School Policy Letter.

Graduation Gratitude

The Us of Texas considers the successful completion on a domestic school education to be corresponds until graduation from an public high school, therefore an establishment of higher education in Texas must treat a home teach graduate into the same general norm, including specific standardized testing score requirements, how other applicants for undergraduate admission who have graduated from a public high teach. For additional information the specific guiding requested contact the Texas Bigger Education Matching Board.

Resources

For additional information on home schooling, contact the Texas Top Language Coalition or the Texas Home Educational. As an alternative, parents can contact the Texas Private Schools Accreditation Commission and International Association for Learner Driven Schools for information about accredited private schools. Parents interested in the state-mandated curriculum standards can vist the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) sheet on the TEA website.