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Rhode Island Education Code For Homeschooling
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for information purposes only. Check for updates at your public
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Compulsory attendance - six years of
age and over and under sixteen years of age on or before September
1.
Parental Qualifications - None mandated
Testing - Not mandated
Record Keeping - A register of attendance must be kept
and turned in.
TITLE 16
Education
CHAPTER 16-19
Compulsory Attendance
SECTION 16-19-1
§ 16-19-1 Attendance
required - Excuses for nonattendance. - ( (a) Every child
who has completed or will have completed six (6) years of life
on or before September 1 of any school year and has not
completed sixteen (16) years of life shall regularly attend some
public day school during all the days and hours that the public
schools are in session in the city or town in which the child
resides. Every person having under his or her control a child
as described in this section shall cause the child to attend
school as required by this section, and for every neglect of
this duty the person having control of the child shall be fined
not exceeding fifty dollars ($50.00) for each day or part of
a day that the child fails to attend school, and if the total
of these days is more than thirty (30) school days during any
school year, then the person shall, upon conviction, be imprisoned
not exceeding six (6) months or shall be fined not more than
five hundred dollars ($500), or both; provided, that if the person
so charged shall prove that the child has attended for the required
period of time a private day school approved by the commissioner
of elementary and secondary education pursuant to § 16-60-6(10),
or a course of at-home instruction approved by the school
committee of the town where the child resides, or that the
physical or mental condition of the child was such as to render
his or her attendance at school inexpedient or impracticable,
or that the child was excluded from school by virtue of some
general law or regulation, then attendance shall not be obligatory
nor shall the penalty be incurred.
(b) Every child enrolled in school who completes
or has completed sixteen (16) years of life and who has not yet
attained eighteen (18) years of age shall regularly attend school
during all the days and hours that the public schools are in
session in the city or town in which the child resides unless
the person having control of the child provides written permission
to the school department of the city or town to terminate the
child's enrollment. Provided, however, that nothing in this
subsection or in subsection (a) of this section shall prohibit
or limit cities or towns from enacting programs of early intervention
and/or mediation in an effort to address the problems of students
who are habitually late or absent from school.
TITLE 16
Education
CHAPTER 16-19
Compulsory Attendance
SECTION 16-19-2
§ 16-19-2 Approval
of private schools - Requirements - Review. - For the
purposes of this chapter a private school or at-home instruction
shall be approved only when it complies with the following requirements:
(1) that the period of attendance of the pupils in the school
or in the home instruction is substantially equal to that required
by law in public schools; (2) that registers are kept and returned
to the school committee, the superintendent of schools, truant
officers, and the department of elementary and secondary education
in relation to the attendance of pupils, and are made the same
as registers kept by the public schools; (3) that reading,
writing, geography,
arithmetic, the
history of the United States, the history of Rhode Island,
and the principles
of American government shall be taught in the English
language substantially to the same extent as these subjects are
required to be taught in the public schools, and that the teaching
of the English language and of other subjects indicated in this
section shall be thorough and efficient; provided, however, that
nothing contained in this section shall be construed or operate
to deny the right to teach in private schools or in at-home instruction
any of the subjects or any other subject in any other language
in addition to the teaching in English as prescribed in this
section; provided, further, that any interested person resident
in any city or town aggrieved by the action of the school committee
of the city or town either in approving or refusing to approve
at-home instruction may appeal the action to the department of
elementary and secondary education. The department of elementary
and secondary education, after notice to the parties interested
of the time and place of a hearing, shall examine and decide
the appeal without cost to the parties. The commissioner of elementary
and secondary education shall also grant a hearing to any party
aggrieved by a refusal to approve a private school pursuant to
§ 16-60-6(10).
The decision of the board of regents for elementary and secondary
education shall, if an appeal is made to the board, be final.
TITLE 16
Education
CHAPTER 16-22
Curriculum
SECTION 16-22-2
§ 16-22-2 Courses
in history and government. - A course of study on the
principles of popular and representative government as enunciated
in the Constitution of Rhode Island and the Constitution of the
United States shall be taught in all the public schools of this
state. The course of study shall be prescribed by the department
of elementary and secondary education. Commencing with the fourth
grade in elementary schools, instruction shall be given in the
history and government of Rhode Island, and in every high school
thorough instruction shall be given in the Constitution and government
of Rhode Island and in the Constitution and government of the
United States. No private school or private instruction shall
be approved for the purposes of chapter 19 of this title unless
the course of study shall make provision for instruction substantially
equivalent to that required by this chapter for public schools.
TITLE 16
Education
CHAPTER 16-22
Curriculum
SECTION 16-22-4
§ 16-22-4 Instruction
in health and physical education. - All children in grades
one through twelve (12) attending public schools, or any other
schools managed and controlled by the state, shall receive in
those schools instruction in health
and physical education under rules and regulations the department
of elementary and secondary education may prescribe or approve
during periods which shall average at least twenty (20) minutes
in each school day. No private school or private instruction
shall be approved by any school committee for the purposes of
chapter 19 of this title as substantially equivalent to that
required by law of a child attending a public school in the same
city and/or town unless instruction in health and physical education
similar to that required in public schools shall be given.
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