Michigan Homeschool Documents & Templates

Status

Not required, but recommended to prevent truancy concerns

Send to

your child's current school

This page covers Home Education. Michigan offers 2 different ways to homeschool, and each may require different documents:

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  Home Education(this page): As the parent or legal guardian, you educate your child at home in an organized educational program in nine subject areas: reading, spelling, mathematics, science, history, civics, literature, writing and English grammar (MCL 380.1561(3)(f)). The statute sets no notice, testing, recordkeeping or annual filing for this exemption.
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  Nonpublic School: Your child attends regularly and is taught in a state-approved nonpublic school that teaches subjects comparable to those taught in the public schools to children of corresponding age and grade (MCL 380.1561(3)(a)). Under the Nonpublic School Act, the Superintendent of Public Instruction supervises these schools, and their courses of study and teacher qualifications are to meet the same standard as the general school laws (MCL 388.551). The state may examine a school's enrollment records, courses of study and teacher qualifications (MCL 388.555). If your home operates as the nonpublic school (MCL 380.1561(4)), you are its appropriate authority. At the start of each school year you report each enrolled child to the local or intermediate superintendent (MCL 380.1578), and whoever teaches needs a teaching certificate unless the family's religious convictions prohibit using certified instructors (MCL 388.553; People v DeJonge, 442 Mich 266 (1993)).

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