Iowa Homeschool Requirements: Three Different Legal Routes, and the One Choice That Decides What Your District Owes You

Iowa calls homeschooling "private instruction," and chapter 299A of the Iowa Code splits it three ways: independent private instruction, competent private instruction supervised by a licensed teacher, and competent private instruction by a parent without a license. On top of that, the parent route itself splits again, into a version that reports and a version that does not. The differences are not cosmetic. One rule in the Iowa Administrative Code decides the whole thing, and it is quoted below. This guide also covers House File 2754, signed May 12, 2026, which changed what an Iowa homeschool diploma is worth and did it retroactively.

The short version

• Compulsory attendance runs from six to sixteen, measured by age on September 15, with a wrinkle at each end that matters.
• There is a route with no form, no test, and no contact with anyone. Iowa's Department of Education calls it "CPI Option #2, Opt-Out Reporting." Independent private instruction is nearly the same thing.
• That route costs you every district service. Not sports, not classes, not textbooks, not special education. The rule is explicit and we quote it.
• The route with reporting buys a real statutory right, not a favor: dual enrollment, and with it participation in extracurriculars "on the same basis as public school children."
• Reporting means Form A by September 1 and proof of adequate annual progress by May 31, with results due to the district by August 1.
• "Adequate progress" is a number, above the thirtieth percentile on national norms, plus six months of growth or being at grade level.
• The district or AEA must give the standardized test for free if you ask in time.
• College credit is open to every route, including the no-reporting ones, and it is free if you register the right way. Registering the wrong way gets you a tuition bill.
• Since May 2026, a parent-issued Iowa homeschool diploma must be accepted for employment, occupational licensure and college admission, and no equivalency credential may be required. It applies to diplomas issued before that date too.
• Iowa's $8,148 education savings account is closed to you. It requires enrollment in an accredited nonpublic school.

Compulsory age, stated precisely

Iowa Code § 299.1A: "a child who has reached the age of six and is under sixteen years of age by September 15 is of compulsory attendance age. However, if a child enrolled in a school district or accredited nonpublic school reaches the age of sixteen on or after September 15, the child remains of compulsory age until the end of the regular school calendar."

The Department of Education states the practical version in its own handbook: "If your student turns 16 prior to Sept. 15, they may end their education at any time during that year. If their birthday is after Sept. 15, they are required to finish the school year in which they turn 16."

And a five year old provision worth knowing before you enroll anybody. Section 299.1A(2) says a child who has reached five by September 15 and who is enrolled in a school district is considered to be of compulsory attendance age "unless the parent or guardian of the child notifies the school district in writing of the parent's or guardian's intent to remove the child from enrollment." A five year old who was never enrolled is not of compulsory age at all. Enrolling for kindergarten and then changing your mind creates a written step that never existed if you simply did not enroll. The same structure applies to a four year old enrolled in the statewide preschool program.

One more, because it surprises teenagers. Iowa Code § 299.1B provides that a person of compulsory attendance age who is not in school and is not receiving competent or independent private instruction "shall not receive an intermediate or full driver's license until age eighteen." Being lawfully homeschooled is what keeps the license available.

The three routes, and what each one actually is

Here is the map. Iowa's own Department of Education homeschooling page and its Private Instruction Handbook use these labels, so use them when you call your district and you will be understood immediately.

1. Independent private instruction (IPI). Defined in Iowa Code § 299A.1(2)(b). Not accredited; private or religious-based instruction as its primary purpose; provides students in all grade levels with instruction in mathematics, reading and language arts, science, and social studies; provides, on written request from the superintendent or from the director of the department, a report naming the primary instructor, the location, the responsible authority and the students; is not a nonpublic school; and "is exempt from all state statutes and administrative rules applicable to a school, a school board, or a school district" except as provided in chapters 299 and 299A. No form, no assessment, no notice.
2. Competent private instruction, Option #1: by a licensed practitioner. § 299A.2. The teaching is provided or supervised by someone holding a valid Iowa license appropriate to the ages and grades taught. That can be a teacher you retain privately, a parent who happens to hold a license, or the district's home school assistance program if your district offers one.
3. Competent private instruction, Option #2: by a parent without a license. § 299A.3. This is what most people mean by homeschooling, and it is the one that splits in two.

Competent private instruction of either kind has one shared definition worth knowing: instruction "provided on a daily basis for at least one hundred forty-eight days during a school year, to be met by attendance for at least thirty-seven days each school quarter." 148 days, 37 per quarter. Independent private instruction carries no day count at all.

The word that changes everything: "may"

Read § 299A.3 slowly, because one word in it is doing all the work:

"A parent, guardian, or legal custodian of a child of compulsory attendance age providing competent private instruction to the child may meet all of the following requirements: 1. Complete and send, in a timely manner, the report required under section 299.4 to the school district of residence of the child. 2. Ensure that the child under the parent's, guardian's, or legal custodian's instruction is evaluated annually to determine whether the child is making adequate progress ... 3. Ensure that the results of the child's annual evaluation are reported to the school district of residence of the child and to the department of education by a date not later than August 1 ..."

Not "shall." May. The 2021 legislature made that change, and the Department of Education built a whole option on top of it. Its handbook's own section heading reads "Competent Private Instruction (CPI) Option #2, Opt-Out Reporting," and the department describes it this way:

"This pathway does not require the family to file Form A or submit documentation regarding the curriculum being used, or provide proof of adequate annual progress with the local school district or the Iowa Department of Education."

It goes further than IPI in one specific respect, which the department spells out: the key difference is that CPI Option #2 Opt-Out "does not allow the Department of Education or the district to ask who is providing instruction, where it will take place or the name(s) of the students involved." An IPI family can be asked those four questions in writing. A CPI Opt-Out family cannot.

The handbook also confirms the practical questions families always ask next: no proof of immunization, no blood lead test, no notification if you move, and no obligation to tell a district anything when you withdraw a currently enrolled child, though the department sensibly encourages an email so nobody comes looking for a truant.

The trade, in one rule

Everything above sounds like a free lunch, and it is not. Here is the rule that prices it, 281 Iowa Administrative Code 31.7(5):

"The options provided in subrule 31.3(2) are not available to any parent, guardian, or legal or actual custodian who requests services from a school district or AEA under this chapter, including the provision of instructional materials, assistance from a home school assistance program, dual enrollment, open enrollment, or special education services."

Subrule 31.3(2) is the "may" list: report, evaluate, report the evaluation. The opt-out is available only to a family that wants nothing from the district. Ask for one thing on that list and the reporting and the annual evaluation become obligations.

The department says the same thing in plain language: a family choosing this option "relinquish[es] the ability to dual enroll for academics, activities or special education services."

For IPI the rule is even tighter. Rule 31.7(6) enumerates exactly three services available to an independent private instruction student: "an approved course in driver education; annual achievement testing under paragraph 31.4(7)'b'; and concurrent enrollment programs, also known as district-to-community college sharing." That is the complete list, and the testing is at your expense.

This is the decision, and it is worth ten minutes at the kitchen table rather than a shrug at the district office. If your child is eight, healthy, and you have no interest in the middle school band, the opt-out costs you nothing you wanted. If your child has an IEP, or is a seventh grader who has wanted to wrestle since she was five, the paperwork is the price of the thing you actually care about, and it is not a high price.

If you do report: Form A, and what it asks

Iowa Code § 299.4 sets the content, and the district provides the form. It is due September 1 of the school year in which the child will be under competent private instruction, filed with the district of residence, which keeps one copy and forwards the other to the area education agency.

The report states the name and age of the child, the period of time the child has been or will be under competent private instruction for the year, an outline of the course of study or texts that will be used, and the name and address of the instructor. A family placing a child under competent private instruction for the first time also provides evidence of the immunizations required under § 139A.8 and, for an elementary school age child, a blood lead test.

Some details the department adds that are easy to get wrong:

• Form A is filed annually, for each child. Keep your own copy.
• Option #1 versus Option #2 is signaled on the form itself. A licensed teacher's name in question 9 makes it Option #1; leaving question 9 blank tells the district you are Option #2. Families in a district home school assistance program may write HSAP as the teacher's name.
• It is not required for children outside compulsory attendance age, but you may file one anyway, and there are two good reasons to: a child under five who has been identified for early childhood special education, and a student who wants to dual enroll for sports, where the course of study section is required in order to document that the student is taking at least four courses.
• Form A is a public document, retained for five years by the district and the AEA. The department lists what may not be released without your consent: immunization information, special education status, course of study information, number of days under competent private instruction, everything about the supervising licensed teacher, and all assessment, portfolio evaluation and correspondence school report card information. Ask your district for its FERPA notice and its student directory information policy, and opt out of the directory if you want to.

Proving progress, and the number behind it

If you are Option #2 with reporting, your child must show adequate annual progress. The deadline to complete it is May 31, and results are due to the district no later than August 1 after the school year ends. Option #1 families, including home school assistance program families, may take an annual assessment but the department says they "are not required to do so, and are not required to provide the results for the district," although a home school assistance program may require one as a local condition.

What has to be proven, by grade. The department's handbook: students under Option #2 "in grades kindergarten through eleventh grade, or who haven't turned 16 prior to Sept. 15 of their junior year, are required to provide proof of adequate annual progress in reading/language arts and mathematics. Students in fifth, eighth and tenth grade are also required to provide proof of adequate annual progress in science."

What "adequate" means, from § 299A.6(4): "evaluation scores which are above the thirtieth percentile, nationally normed, in each of the areas of reading, mathematics, and language arts, and which indicate either that the child has made six months' progress from the previous evaluation results or that the child is at or above grade level for the child's age." For grade six and above, science and social studies are added on the same terms.

Three ways to satisfy it, and only one of them is a test:

1. A standardized assessment from the department's approved list. Currently the Iowa Test of Basic Skills Forms E and F, the Terra Nova 3rd Edition Forms C and D, the Stanford Achievement Test 10th Edition, the ISASP, and the alternate assessment for an eligible student with an IEP. There is a request form for anything not on the list.
2. A portfolio review by a person holding a current Iowa teaching license, whom you choose and the superintendent approves. For grades 1 through 5 the portfolio shows reading, language arts and mathematics; for grades 6 through 12, science and social studies as well. Under the statute, a favorable report "shall create a presumption that the child is making adequate progress."
3. A transcript or report card from an accredited online correspondence school, where a passing grade in all required subject areas is deemed evidence of adequate progress.

The test is free if you ask. Section 299A.4(6) and rule 31.4(3) both provide that the district or AEA will administer the annual achievement evaluation at no cost to a competent private instruction family on request, and that you are not required to reimburse the cost. An IPI family who wants the test pays for it. A "timely request" is the operative phrase, so ask early in the spring rather than in May.

Two more honest notes. In general you may not proctor your own child's standardized test; the publisher sets the security and proctoring rules, though the department allows results where the publisher has determined the parent is a qualified administrator. And a first-time or seven year old student takes a baseline evaluation, which is not a pass or fail event but the starting line the six months of growth is measured from.

What happens if a score comes in low. This is the part families worry about, so here is what the statute actually does. Under § 299A.6, a child who fails to make adequate progress must attend an accredited public or nonpublic school at the beginning of the next school year unless, before that year begins, the child retakes a different form of the same evaluation or another approved evaluation and passes, or an evaluator documents adequate performance under the portfolio route, or the director of the department approves continuing under a plan for remediation, which may be granted for up to one year. It is a process with three off-ramps, not a trapdoor.

What the district owes you, and this is where Iowa is genuinely good

Iowa gives homeschooling families one of the strongest activity access rights in the country, and it is a statute rather than a courtesy. Iowa Code § 299A.8:

"If a parent, guardian, or legal custodian of a school-age child who is receiving competent private instruction under this chapter submits a request, the child shall also be registered in a public school for dual enrollment purposes. If the child is enrolled in a public school district for dual enrollment purposes, the child shall be permitted to participate in any academic activities in the district and shall also be permitted to participate on the same basis as public school children in any extracurricular activities available to children in the child's grade or group."

Shall, not may. Same basis, not a lesser basis. Sports, band, clubs, speech, a single academic class: all of it is in reach through dual enrollment, and the district cannot decide it would rather not.

The practical terms, from the department's handbook and the rules:

• Dual enrollment itself is free, but a district may charge a dual enrolled student the same fees it charges a regularly enrolled student for the same thing: driver education, activity costs, uniforms and equipment, mouth guards. Textbook fees are prorated to the classes you are enrolled for. "A homeschool student is not charged for anything that is provided at no cost to a regularly enrolled student."
• You do not have to join a home school assistance program to dual enroll, and you may do either, both, or neither.
• There is a ceiling. Rule 31.5(4): "A parent may not use dual enrollment to enroll a child in all courses but one." The department's example: in a seven period day, a dual enrolled student may take five.
• Enrolling solely to take the annual achievement test is not dual enrollment, so it does not open any of these doors.
• Instructional materials. A district may not hand you cash or publicly funded resources, but under rule 31.7(3) it will provide available texts and supplementary materials on the same basis as it does for enrolled students when your child is dual enrolled or in a home school assistance program, and your area education agency's services and materials are available on the same terms, with the district acting as liaison.
• Driver education, under rule 31.7(4), the district will offer or make available to all resident students "including those receiving private instruction on an equal basis with students enrolled in the district." This one reaches IPI families too.

Special education. Iowa's arrangement is unusual and worth understanding before you decide anything. Under § 299A.9, a child identified as requiring special education is eligible for placement under competent private instruction; a child under competent private instruction whose performance suggests a need "shall be referred for evaluation" under chapter 256B; and the parent of an identified child "may request dual enrollment pursuant to section 299A.8," with the appropriate services then determined under chapter 256B. In other words, in Iowa special education services for a homeschooled child run through dual enrollment, which is one more reason the reporting question is really a services question.

The department is blunt about the other side of that. Choosing IPI or the opt-out route with an identified child means the IEP team convenes, the parent revokes consent, and "during the period the parent has revoked consent, neither the district nor the Area Education Agency will provide services and is not liable for compensatory services during the period consent was revoked." It also confirms that you do not need prior written approval from the district or the AEA to homeschool a child who has an IEP, and that you may keep dual enrollment after revoking consent, but the accommodations and supports in the IEP end with it.

College credit in high school, and the registration mistake that costs money

Iowa uses two words that sound alike and are not. Dual enrollment is the § 299A.8 mechanism above, for district academics and activities. Concurrent enrollment is college coursework through the district's agreement with the area community college, part of Iowa's Senior Year Plus programming under chapter 261E.

The good news is that concurrent enrollment is open to every route, including the ones with no paperwork. The department's handbook says it directly for independent private instruction: "Students who are homeschooled under IPI may enroll in concurrent courses with the district they reside in. This gives the student the opportunity to earn both high school and college credits at no cost to the family ... IPI students are not required to file Form A to do this." Competent private instruction students who are dual enrolled may participate in concurrent enrollment, post-secondary enrollment options under § 261E.7, and Advanced Placement courses offered by the district.

Now the sentence that will save somebody a tuition bill. The handbook warns: "Many community colleges offer online registration. However, using the online option and registering directly with the community college does not trigger the funding that pays for the courses. If a family registers directly with the community college, they will be billed for tuition." Register through the district. Ask the district for the community college's form. Confirm the course is inside the district's concurrent enrollment agreement, because only those courses are free.

Two more specifics. Students must be in grades 9 through 12 and meet both district and community college admission requirements, and a 2025 rule change lifted the old restriction limiting homeschool students to part of the school day for concurrent courses. And the district "may not restrict the mode of delivery, and is responsible for providing the textbooks for homeschool students on the same basis as regularly enrolled students."

The diploma, and the 2026 law that changed what yours is worth

For years the honest answer in Iowa was uncomfortable. The Department of Education "does not maintain records of completion for homeschool families, does not issue diplomas and cannot verify high school completion for employment purposes," in the handbook's own words. And the department's homeschooling page points at two Iowa Supreme Court decisions upholding truancy convictions, State v. Skeel, 486 N.W.2d 43 (Iowa 1992), for failing to file Form A at all, and State v. Rivera, 497 N.W.2d 878 (Iowa 1993), for not filling it in fully or accurately. Those cases are real, they come up in every search, and the department adds the sentence that puts them in their place: "However, it is important to note that options are now available that do not require the filing of Form A."

Then, on May 12, 2026, Governor Reynolds signed House File 2754, and among many other things it created a new Iowa Code § 299A.13. Here is what it says, and it is the most consequential paragraph on this page:

"A diploma, final transcript, or other written documentation issued pursuant to subsection 2 shall be accepted under the laws of this state in the same manner as a high school diploma, final transcript, or other written documentation issued by a school district or an accredited nonpublic school for all purposes, including but not limited to all of the following: a. Admission to postsecondary education or training programs. b. Eligibility for employment. c. Qualification for occupational licensure, certification, or registrations. d. Access to state and local programs, benefits, and opportunities. e. Any other purpose under the laws of this state in which a high school diploma is a condition or a qualification."

Subsection 2 is the parent. The section provides that the parent, guardian, legal custodian or instructor responsible for the program of secondary education "may issue a diploma, final transcript, or other written documentation evidencing academic achievements and the completion of the program of secondary education," and that a student who completes such a program "shall be deemed to have completed a high school education." Subsection 4 adds that the state, a political subdivision, "or any other person shall not deny or restrict any right, privilege, or benefit available to an individual solely because" the diploma was parent-issued. Subsection 5 says such a student "shall not be required to obtain a high school equivalency diploma or other alternative credential."

Two things about it that no summary will tell you. First, the Act took effect on enactment, being "deemed of immediate importance." Second, and this is the part worth telling a grown sibling about, the applicability section makes § 299A.13 apply "to any diplomas, final transcripts, or other written documentation issued before, on, or after the effective date." An Iowa adult who was homeschooled a decade ago, holds a diploma their mother signed, and has been told by a licensing board that it does not count, is covered.

The companion section, new § 299A.14, gives the parent, guardian or legal custodian "the authority to execute any document required by law to verify" the child's placement under private instruction, full-time or part-time status, grades obtained, and "any other required educational information." That is the answer to every form that has a line for a school official's signature.

Two limits, said plainly. This is Iowa law and it binds Iowa. A private college in another state, or a federal program, is not bound by it. And a separate route still exists that some families prefer: the department notes that "the decision to issue a diploma to a student receiving private instruction is up to the student's resident district," that the district is not compelled to, and that a family who wants one should talk to the resident high school's administrators during the child's eighth grade year to coordinate credits. That is a long conversation to start early, not a form to file late.

The 2026 change to independent private instruction, and why your search results are wrong about it

House File 2754 also rewrote the definition of independent private instruction, and this one matters if you have been reading anything published before mid-2026, including the Iowa Code chapter PDF itself.

The old definition contained two restrictions that made IPI unusable for a co-op or a small learning pod: it could enroll "not more than four unrelated students," and it could not "charge tuition, fees, or other remuneration for instruction." Section 97 of the Act strikes both. You can see the strikes in the enrolled bill, where the old criteria (2) and (3) are lined out and the remaining criteria are renumbered.

Here is the practical warning. The compiled Iowa Code chapter published on the legislature's own site carries a generation date, and the copy of chapter 299A available at the time of writing was generated in December 2025, before this Act. It still prints the four-student cap and the tuition ban. The Department of Education's current page and its August 2026 handbook both list the amended six criteria. If you are checking a source and something does not match, check its date before you trust it, including on this page.

Money: a real credit, a closed door, and a question we will not answer

The Tuition and Textbook Credit is real and it reaches homeschoolers by name. Iowa Code § 422.12 defines "private instruction," for credit purposes, as independent private instruction under § 299A.1(2)(b), competent private instruction under § 299A.2, or "private instruction provided to a resident of this state by a nonlicensed person under section 299A.3." All three routes. The credit is "twenty-five percent of the first two thousand dollars which the taxpayer has paid to others for each dependent in grades kindergarten through twelve, for tuition and textbooks," so a maximum of $500 per dependent.

The Department of Revenue's own instructions confirm the homeschool reach and add useful detail: qualifying expenses paid with 529 account distributions may qualify for the credit, and purchases made with Students First education savings account funds may not. The eligible column includes "Textbooks and other instructional materials used in teaching subjects legally and commonly taught in Iowa's public elementary and secondary schools," required supplies, driver education fees, and materials for extracurricular activities.

Two exclusions we are going to volunteer, including the one that costs us. The statute's definitions of both "tuition" and "textbooks" exclude anything relating to "the teaching of religious tenets, doctrines, or worship, the purpose of which is to inculcate those tenets, doctrines, or worship," and the Department of Revenue's ineligible column repeats it. We are an openly Christian school, and an Iowa family should hear that limit from us in September rather than discover it in April. The other exclusion is narrower and points straight at us: the ineligible column includes "amounts for tutoring not paid to a school."

So: does a Kitchen Table School subscription qualify for the Iowa Tuition and Textbook Credit? We are not going to tell you. The doors are real: the department's eligible tuition line covers "tuition for any K-12 school that is accredited or for competent private instruction as defined in Iowa Code section 299A.2," and instructional materials qualify broadly. The obstacles are equally real: that tuition line names § 299A.2, the licensed practitioner route, and we are not that; tutoring not paid to a school is excluded outright; and we are not a school in Iowa or anywhere else. A confident answer from the company that profits from the answer is worth nothing. Ask the Iowa Department of Revenue in writing, keep the reply, and give it to your tax preparer.

The closed door, so you do not spend a spring on it. Iowa's Students First Education Savings Accounts are worth $8,148 for the 2026-2027 school year and are open to all Iowa resident K-12 students regardless of income, with one requirement that ends the conversation: "A student enrolled in an accredited nonpublic school." Homeschooling is not enrollment in an accredited nonpublic school, and no filing choice inside chapter 299A changes that. If a family is genuinely weighing homeschooling against an accredited private school, the $8,148 belongs in the comparison honestly, on the private school's side of it.

One place the department contradicts itself, and what we would do

A small thing, flagged because you may hit it and think you are losing your mind. In the handbook's section on the opt-out route, the department writes that "you are required to provide instruction in reading/language arts, mathematics, science and social studies." In its general section on competent private instruction, it writes that "it is encouraged to provide instruction in" the same four subjects. Required in one place, encouraged in the other, about the same families.

The statute is the tiebreaker and it is narrower than either sentence: chapter 299A names those four subjects as a criterion of independent private instruction, and does not enumerate subjects for competent private instruction at all. What competent private instruction has instead is the adequate progress standard, which measures reading, language arts and mathematics, with science added at grades five, eight and ten.

What we would do is teach all four and stop worrying about it, which is what every family we know does anyway. If the distinction matters to your situation, ask the department's school improvement consultants, whose names and numbers are published on the homeschooling page, and keep the reply.

How an AI teacher fits into a state like this one

Start with what we are not. Kitchen Table School is not a school in Iowa. We are not accredited, we are not an accredited nonpublic school, we are not a home school assistance program, and we are not a licensed Iowa practitioner, which means using us does not turn Option #2 into Option #1 and does not make anyone a supervising teacher. Enrolling with us does not file your Form A, does not satisfy your annual assessment, and does not make your child eligible for anything. Anyone who tells an Iowa family otherwise is selling something.

What we do is the teaching. Before anything else, the teacher sits down with your child for a free placement conversation that feels like a friendly chat rather than a test, and tells you where your child actually is in each subject rather than where the grade label says they should be. From there your child works one on one with a patient teacher at their real level, kindergarten through twelfth grade. Iowa families take the upload your own curriculum path: you choose the materials, and the teacher reads them and teaches from their actual pages.

And every session writes itself down. The date, the subject, the book and unit, how long it ran, what your child worked on, and what they got solid on.

Set that against Iowa's two paperwork moments. Form A asks for "an outline of the course of study, or texts that will be used," where the department defines outline of course of study to include "subjects covered, lesson plans, and time spent on the areas of study." That is a description of a running instructional record, and it is much easier to file in September when you already had one in May. The portfolio route to proving adequate progress asks a licensed Iowa evaluator to look at evidence of progress in named subject areas; a dated log of what was taught, from which book, for how long, and what the child got solid on, is exactly the spine an evaluator wants a portfolio built around. And the 148 day, 37 per quarter count is the sort of thing that is trivial if something was writing it down and miserable to reconstruct in July.

One more thing, said plainly because Iowa families deserve to know it about us. We are openly a Christian school. Our teacher gives every child the same warmth and the same academic standards regardless of what a family believes, and a family that does not share our faith is welcome here. We say it because you should know who is teaching your child, and because it is the reason the tax exclusion above is on this page.

Now the limits. We do not file Form A, we do not administer or proctor any approved Iowa assessment, we are not an evaluator and we cannot review a portfolio, and we do not talk to your district, your AEA, or your area community college. We cannot get your child dual enrolled and we cannot restore special education services that were ended by a revocation of consent. And nothing we generate substitutes for your child's own work, so keep the drawings and the messy first drafts, the same as you would anywhere.

Iowa hands you an unusual amount of freedom and a real decision to make with it. Somebody still has to do the teaching in between. That is the job we are applying for.

Curious how this works day to day? Here's the honest guide to teaching your own curriculum with us, written for every out-of-state family, Iowa included. Since Iowa's reporting route turns on an outline of the course of study and a portfolio an evaluator can read, homeschool record keeping is the natural next read; it covers the habit itself, and the principle travels. If your child has an IEP, the dual enrollment decision above is the whole ballgame, and our guide to homeschooling with an IEP is worth reading before you revoke anything. Or see the requirements for every other state.