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Homeschooling in Yukon

What Yukon actually asks of a family teaching their own children. Written plainly, and honest where the answer is that nobody asks for anything.

CanadaFiling required

Who is in charge

Yukon Department of Education; registration is administered through Aurora Virtual School (AVS) for English-language home education, and by the Commission scolaire francophone du Yukon (programme Ecole Nomade) for French.

Who actually reviews your child

The Minister may refuse to approve a plan (Regs s.3) and may terminate (Act s.31(8)). AVS's operational page claims it has no authority to approve or supervise, that claim conflicts with the regulation. Do not tell a family AVS cannot refuse.

What you must file

Register the student with the Minister

Act s.31(2): before the start of a home education program and on an annual basis thereafter. AVS operational dates (15 May / 15 Sept / 30 Sept) are NOT on the archived yukon.ca page, do not print them as statute.

Goes to: The Minister; English administered by Aurora Virtual School; French First Language via CSFY École Nomade

Live yukon.ca remained HTTP 403 on 2026-08-19. Statute text is from the archived official PDF, not the live printer.

Educational plan

Act s.31(3)(a): initial plan before the start of the home education program. AVS form says plans are for one school calendar year and 'need to be renewed each year prior to September 15th', that operational line CONFLICTS with the Act's three-year minimum. Do not resolve the conflict in family copy; name both.

How often: initial before start; Act s.31(3)(b) says a plan shall be for a minimum of three school years

Goes to: The Minister (AVS processes English plans)

Act s.31(3)(c): each plan shall include a description of the learning activities that will comply with the goals in subparagraph 4(a)(i). Achievement testing is optional at parent request (s.31(4); Regs s.6) unless the Minister uses s.31(7)-(8). Do not list testing or provincial exams as a mandatory parent filing.

The words a reviewer uses

British Columbia curriculum - Yukon schools follow it

Big Idea · Curricular Competency · Content · Learning Standards

The part the paperwork does not cover

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 Yukon and builds the record you can hand over the day someone asks. See how it works.

Start your record

Other places in Canada

AlbertaBritish ColumbiaManitobaNew BrunswickNewfoundland and LabradorNorthwest TerritoriesNova ScotiaNunavutOntarioPrince Edward IslandQuebecSaskatchewan
Not yet confirmed at the government's own source. The requirements above agree across the sources we could reach, but we have not read them on the authority's own page. Treat them as a guide and confirm before you file.
Last read at the source on 2026-08-19: Education Act, RSY 2002, c.61, s.31, Wayback unofficial consolidation PDF (2023-10-03). Live laws.yukon.ca HTTP 403.. That is the date we read it, not the date the rule last changed.
Check it yourself: the source we used.