Every state has different rules. Here they are, one state at a time.

What every one of these guides covers

• The compulsory attendance ages, which vary by three years from state to state and decide whether you have a legal obligation at all yet.
• The form, the deadline, and who it goes to. Some states want a notice, some want an affidavit, some want a declaration, one wants you to run a private school. The word matters less than the date.
• What you have to teach, and what nobody can require of you.
• Testing and evaluation, including the states that require none.
• The records you keep, who can ask for them, and how long you hold them.
• The money. Tax credits, education savings accounts, and scholarship programs, including the honest version of who is actually eligible rather than the headline.
• The honest tradeoff of living under that particular set of rules, which nobody else writes down.

One thing we are not

Kitchen Table School is not a registered or accredited school in any state. We do not file your paperwork, we are not your evaluator or your umbrella school, and we do not administer state assessments. You are the parent on the forms in every one of these fifty states. What we do is teach your child, at their real level, from the curriculum you choose, and write down everything that happens so you have the record when someone asks for it.