The legal requirements for homeschooling in the state of Kentucky are straightforward; as a rule, Kentucky is a state that is very friendly to homeschooling.
Requirements include:
Every child who will reach his sixth birthday by August 1st and has not passed his eighteenth birthday is required to attend school.
At least 1, 062 hours of ‘instructional time for students delievered on no less thatn 170 student attendance days.
Private and parochial schools shall be taught in the English language and shall offer instruction in the several branches of study required to be taught in the public schools of the state…these branches of studey are generally understood to include reading, writing, spelling, grammar, history, mathematics, science, and civics.
Under Kentucky state law, a homeschool is a private school; when you homeschool, you are running a private school. In order to qualify as running a private school, you do the following:
- Notify the local board of education of those students in attendance at the school. What this means: Homeschoolers need to send a letter to their local school board, within the first two weeks of the school year, containing the following information: the name of each child over the age of six by August 1 of the school year, the child’s grade, the name of your (private) school, ie, St. Albertus Magnus Academy, and the primary teacher of the homeschool (you, as the parent, functioning as the principal of your private school).
- All homeschools, as a private school, must keep an attendance register and scholarship reports “in the same manner as it required by law or by regulation of the Kentucky Board of Education of public school officials.” What this means: keep a calendar of your school days. Keep a record of the work that your children have done throughout the school year.
- No required teacher qualifications
- No required standardized tests.
So,
Send in your letter to the board of education of your county (each county should have a website with the needed address), with name of school, name of student, grade of student, primary teacher.
And
Keep a record of days when you have school, and keep some record of the work that your child has done over the course of the year.
Extra bonus: under Kentucky state law, you can count any time spend on a 4H activity as a school activity and count it towards your hours! Seat of Wisdom activities can also be counted as school hours, too.