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Private School Letter of Intent
You may notify the DOE of your intent to
homeschool
as a private school by sending in an annual letter of intent1.
It is not necessary to use the form that the DOE supplies. You may send the letter within 30 days of beginning your
private-school homeschool. The 30 day time frame was established as a means for
the state to count the number of children in private schools at the beginning of
each school year. If you start in the middle of the current school year there
will be no problem. If you send the letter and a duplicate by certified mail,
you may expect the stamped duplicate to be returned. This is all you may expect
to hear from the state. Please use the contact form at
http://www.la-home-education.com/contact.html
if you have questions concerning any contact by the state.
What happened to the DOE forms? The DOE site now only has general information about submitting a notice or letter of intent on its site and is apparently discontinuing the use of its private school notification form.
Representative Beard introduced legislation in order to have the DOE modify forms containing language that he found disagreeable. After the DOE agreed to his requests, Rep. Beard withdrew his legislation.
You will not find the DOE form for submitting a private school notice of intent or the non-approved private school notification form linked on the DOE site. The most recent copies are archived on this site, however, you should submit a letter, rather than the old form (see link above.)
Here are the forms (Oct 2003
version) that were unlinked from the DOE site:
Click for the revised DOE Form
(html)
Click for the revised DOE Form
(Word)
1 This is a letter of intent - it is not applying for approval as a traditional private school. You are not asking for state approval, simply giving notice that your children will be homeschooled in your home as a private school and not under the state home-study program.