HOME-BASED EDUCATION
(Home Schooling)
It is recognized that home-based education is a legitimate alternative to classroom attendance for the instruction of children.
This is only an excerpt from C.R.S. 22-33-104.5 Home-based education - legislative declaration - definitions - guidelines. Please read the entire state statute for additional regulations pertaining to home-based education.
(c) A nonpublic home-based educational program shall include no less than
one hundred seventy-two days of instruction, averaging four instructional
contact hours per day.
(d) A nonpublic home-based educational program shall include, but need
not be limited to, communication skills of reading, writing, and speaking,
mathematics, history, civics, literature, science, and regular courses of
instruction in the constitution of the
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(e) Any parent establishing a nonpublic home-based educational program
shall provide written notification of the establishment of said program to a
school district within the state fourteen days prior to the establishment of
said program and each year thereafter if the program is maintained. The
parent in charge and in control of a nonpublic home-based educational
program shall certify, in writing, only a statement containing the name,
age,place of residence, and number of hours of attendance of each child
enrolled in said program.
(f) Each child participating in a nonpublic home-based educational program
shall be evaluated when such child reaches grades three, five, seven, nine,
and eleven.
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