Homeschooling
If you are a home school parent, you are making an important decision and must have a strong commitment to your child. Montana Code Annotated 20-5-109 allows a “compulsory school enrollment exemption,” which accommodates your family’s choice.
Forms
As a home school, the mandatory information you need to provide the Superintendent of School’s Office is:
Homeschool Attendance Record
Required to be submitted Sept. of each year
Notice of Intent to Homeschool
Notification of Opportunity to Participate in Federal Programs
Even if you do not wish to participate in federally funded programs for homeschooling, please complete this form before the first Monday in October each day.
Submit Homeschooling Forms
Federal homeschooling programs
As a home school, you are eligible to participate in any of the below federally-funded education programs that other districts can also participate in. Private and home schools simply must notify the district of their wish to participate in programs sponsored by the school district. The funds are available through federal grants, and depending on each program’s requirements, a school district may participate in as many or as few as determined necessary by the local board of trustees. These programs do not provide student stipends or direct payment to any private school. Instead, they provide schools with supplies or equipment or participation in a group activity.
- Title I, Part A: Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged – To provide financial assistance to districts to expand and improve their educational programs to meet the needs of students who are at risk of failing to meet challenging academic standards. Parents must have an opportunity to help plan, design and implement a Title 1 project.
- Title I, Part C: Migrant Education Program – A federally funded state educational agency-operated program that provides supplemental education and supportive services to eligible migrant children to help them overcome educational disruptions and disadvantages.
- Title II, Part A: Improving Teacher Quality – To increase student achievement by improving the effectiveness of teaching.
- Title III, Part A: English Language Acquisition for Limited English Proficient and Immigrant Students – To help ensure limited English proficient students become proficient in English and attain state standards.
- Title IV, Part B: 21st Century Community Learning Centers – Provide opportunities for academic enrichment during before-school, after-school and summer hours in a community learning center environment. Services must reinforce and complement regular academic programs and offer literacy and educational development to families.
- School Nutrition Program – Work with schools and communities to provide children with access to healthful meals and snacks that nourish their minds and bodies and school nutrition environments that encourage healthful lifestyles. Includes:
- Special Education Individuals with Disabilities Education Act – To ensure that eligible children with disabilities, beginning at age three, have free, appropriate public education available to them which emphasizes special education and related services designed to meet individual needs in accordance with the Individual Education Plan
- Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act of 2006 – Provides funding to assist high schools in paying the additional costs of approved career and technical education programs. Career and Technical Education programs include:
- Agriculture education
- Health occupations education
- Business education
- Family and consumer sciences education
- Industrial/technology education
- Marketing education
Even if you do not wish to participate in these programs, we ask you complete the above form prior to the first Monday in October, which is the first pupil enrollment count day of the year.