Hawaii homeschool laws
How to homeschool in Hawaii
Before starting, give a notice of intent to the principal of the public school your child would attend. Use Form 4140 or a letter with the child's name, address, phone, birth date and grade, and your signature. File again when the child moves between school levels or you move. Send the principal a progress report every year. In grades 3, 5, 8 and 10 it must be a standardized test. Tell the principal when you stop.
- Requirements:
- Moderate requirements
- How you file:
- State form
- Law:
- Haw. Rev. Stat. § 302A-1132(a)(5); Haw. Admin. Rules ch. 8-12
- More:
- HSLDA Hawaii
Hawaii homeschool requirements
- Who can teach
- Any parent. No diploma or certificate required.
- Days and hours
- No set days or hours.
- Subjects
- No fixed list. The curriculum must be structured, cumulative and sequential and based on educational objectives.
- Testing
- Submit an annual progress report to the principal: a nationally normed test at grade level or showing a year of growth, an evaluation by a Hawaii-certified teacher, or your own written evaluation with work samples. In grades 3, 5, 8 and 10 the report must be a standardized test (state or comparable private test).
- Records
- A record of the planned curriculum: start and end dates, hours per week, subjects, how mastery is judged, and a list of materials.
Hawaii homeschool forms and letters, filled out
The notice of intent, renewals, reports and letters Hawaii asks for, in the state's own form where one exists.
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- 1Start
- 2Document
- 3Answers
- 4Sign
- 5Download
Also expected in Hawaii
No form to fill out for these. The state expects them all the same.
Record of the planned curriculum
Keep on hand
Start and end dates, hours per week, subjects, how you judge mastery, and a bibliography of materials.
Where it goes
Give Form 4140 (Section B, option 5) or a letter of intent to the principal of the public school your child would attend. The school returns the signed original.