What New York actually asks of a family teaching their own children. Written plainly, and honest where the answer is that nobody asks for anything.
United StatesFiling requiredWho is in charge
Superintendent of the resident school district
Who actually reviews your child
The district superintendent, four times a year plus the annual assessment. New York is the heaviest reporting cadence in the United States.
By 1 JULY each year; or within 14 days of commencing home instruction mid-year
Goes to: District superintendent
Within four weeks of receiving the district's IHIP form, or by 15 AUGUST, whichever is LATER
Goes to: District superintendent
Names the syllabi/curriculum materials or plan of instruction for each required subject, the dates the four quarterly reports will be filed, and the instructor for each subject.
On or before the dates the PARENT specified in the IHIP, spaced in even and logical periods
Goes to: District superintendent
Each report must contain: the number of hours of instruction that quarter; a description of the material covered in each subject listed in the IHIP; EITHER a grade in each subject OR a written narrative evaluating progress; and a written explanation if less than 80 PER CENT of the planned course material was covered in any subject.
Filed WITH the fourth quarterly report
Goes to: District superintendent
A commercially published norm-referenced achievement test, or, for grades 1-3 every year and grades 4-8 no more often than every other year, a written narrative evaluation by a person the superintendent consents to. Standardized testing is the required form in grades 9-12.
Filing on time is the easy half. The harder half is the year in between: showing what your child actually learned, in words the reviewer recognises, without turning your home into a school.
That is what this app is for. You say what your child did, in a sentence. It maps that to the real curriculum for New York and builds the record you can hand over the day someone asks. See how it works.