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Wisconsin
Home Schooling - State Laws &
Regulations
Please Note This Important
Notice:
Wisconsin
home schooling laws and regulations cannot be summarized in a short
informational page or overview. It is incumbent upon
you to perform due diligence in researching and
familiarizing yourself with your state's legal's and
regulations as they pertain to homeschooling. This
information is provided for you to give you a
starting point. This is not intended to be legal
advice and is distributed for basic informational
purposes only. For more information about the laws
and regulations in this state please contact a state
or local support group or your public library.
On or before October 15, each "administrator" of a
home-based private education program must submit, on forms provided by
the department of public instruction, a statement of the home-school's
enrollment on the third Friday of September. The form is one page and on
it you must state that the program of instruction is provided by the
child's parent or guardian or by a person designated by the parent or
guardian; that the primary purpose of the program is to provide private
or religious based education; that the program is privately controlled,
provides a minimum of 875 hours of instruction each year, provides a
sequentially progressive curriculum of fundamental instruction in six
mandated subject areas; and that the program is not operated or
instituted for the purpose of avoiding or circumventing the compulsory
school attendance requirement.
There are no testing requirements.
115.001(3g)
(3g) Home-based private educational program.
"Home-based private educational program" means a program of educational
instruction provided to a child by the child's parent or guardian or by
a person designated by the parent or guardian. An instructional program
provided to more than one family unit does not constitute a home-based
private educational program.
118.15(4) (4) Instruction in a home-based private educational program that
meets all of the criteria under s. 118.165 (1) may be substituted for
attendance at a public or private school.
118.165Private schools.
118.165(1) (1) An institution is a private school if its educational program
meets all of the following criteria:
118.165(1)(a)
(a) The primary purpose of the program is to provide private or
religious-based education.
118.165(1)(b)
(b) The program is privately controlled.
118.165(1)(c)
(c) The program provides at least 875 hours of instruction each school
year.
118.165(1)(d)
(d) The program provides a sequentially progressive curriculum of
fundamental instruction in reading, language arts, mathematics, social
studies, science and health. This subsection does not require the
program to include in its curriculum any concept, topic or practice in
conflict with the program's religious doctrines or to exclude from its
curriculum any concept, topic or practice consistent with the program's
religious doctrines.
118.165(1)(e)
(e) The program is not operated or instituted for the purpose of
avoiding or circumventing the compulsory school attendance requirement
under s. 118.15 (1) (a).
118.165(1)(f)
(f) The pupils in the institution's educational program, in the
ordinary course of events, return annually to the homes of their parents
or guardians for not less than 2 months of summer vacation, or the
institution is licensed as a child welfare agency under s. 48.60 (1).
