Nevada
Questions and Answers About New Law
As described in the January/February 1998 Court Report, the Nevada State Board of Education made several significant changes to the home school regulations in late October 1997. These amendments have raised some new questions from home educators. Here are Home School Legal Defense Association’s answers to some of the most common questions:
- Has the new law changed the consultant requirement?
Yes, the new law does not require that a consultant have experience in any specific grade level. The consultant has to have home schooled for at least three years. This means that a home school consultant with elementary age children can be a consultant for a home school family with high school age children. The home schooling consultant's experience in another state counts toward the three-year requirement.
- Is there a minimum amount of time that the consultant has to spend with the home school student?
No. At one time there was a 25-hour per-school year time requirement; however, that rule was deleted from the law in 1990.
- If testing is no longer required, how do I prove educational progress?
There is no longer an educational progress requirement in the law. The law now only requires written proof of equivalent instruction, which is fulfilled by filing the notification of intent each year.
- Is there is a specific form I must use for the notification of intent?
No. Any form that includes the information required by law, and only that information, is sufficient. The law requires that the information be provided, not that it be provided in a particular format. If you have any doubt about what information is to be provided in a notification, please give our office a call.
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Nevada
Admitted to statehood:
October 31, 1864
Origin of name:
Spanish for “snow-clad.”
Motto:
All for our country.
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