What Rhode Island 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
Local school committee
Who actually reviews your child
The local school committee, as an approval decision, plus attendance records flowing to the superintendent, truant officers and RIDE.
Before at-home instruction begins
Goes to: Local school committee
Rhode Island is not a file-and-go state: the school committee must APPROVE the plan before instruction starts.
As kept by the public schools
How often: continuous
Goes to: Returned to the school committee, the superintendent, truant officers and RIDE
Instruction must be for a period 'substantially equal' to that required in public schools, currently 1,080 school hours, equivalent to a 5.5-hour day for 180 days.
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 Rhode Island and builds the record you can hand over the day someone asks. See how it works.