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| Date: From: Subject: | 9/22/2005 4:04:48 PM Home School Legal Defense Association California--Private School Affidavit Filing Instructions |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== California--Private School Affidavit Filing Instructions Dear HSLDA members and friends: The California Department of Education (CDE) indicates that the new Private School Affidavit for the 2005-2006 school year will be posted on their website (http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/ps/rq/) October 1, 2005. Private School Affidavits generally are to be completed and filed between October 1st and 15th each year. New private schools that start up later in the school year should file an affidavit when they begin. Please check their website periodically to see if the Private School Affidavit has been made available. If this is your first time filing a Private School Affidavit, print off a copy from their website and review it. If you have questions not answered by our instructions below, please call our office for assistance. Individuals who do not have access to the internet (either at home, the library or with the help of a friend, and with access to a printer) can write to the CDE at the address below to request a blank Private School Affidavit. The law requires that you file this Private School Affidavit with the CDE in order for your children, who are enrolled in your private school (which happens to be based in your home) to be exempt from attendance at a public school. _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ Accessing the Affidavit from CDE website Access the Private School Affidavit form on the CDE web site at http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/ps/rq/. Please read the filing instructions on the website carefully. NOTE: The CDE has stated that they will not accept a Private School Affidavit form that has been printed from the website and completed manually. The website form must be completed on-line. Completing and filing an Affidavit 1. The only information required to be reported on an affidavit or statement are the items specifically mentioned in EC sec. 33190. However, the computerized online affidavit form has been programmed by the CDE to require some additional information. We recommend that you provide only what is necessary to file the affidavit as indicated by the sections with asterisks. 2. You and/or your spouse are the administrators and directors of your school. You will insert your name in both places, giving yourself whatever title you would like to use. (Example: principal, administrator or teacher.) 3. Private homeschoolers should check "Coeducational" as the "Type of School" and "Day Only" under "School Accommodations." 4. Under "Classification of School" most private homeschools are not officially affiliated with a denomination and should check, as applicable, either "Religious school, not church affiliated" or "Secular." 5. On your Private School Affidavit, do not indicate enrollment of any children under 5 years of age. California's compulsory attendance laws only require that children be enrolled by their 6th birthday in the year in which they turn 6 on or before December 2nd (i.e. a child who turns six on December 3, 2005, does not need to be formally enrolled in school until October, 2006). You may, of course, teach your children who are under 5 years of age at home. They simply are not formally enrolled in your private school and therefore should not to be included in the number of students which you indicate by grade level on the affidavit form. By reporting any enrollment of children under 5 years of age, you could be perceived as operating a preschool program. The state Department of Social Services, Community Care Licensing Division, rather than the department of education, has jurisdiction over the licensing of all private nursery schools, preschools, and day-care centers within the state. Any established, organized program for children younger than four years and nine months of age is designated a preschool and must be licensed. 6. Once you have completed the form on-line (refer to Completing and filing an Affidavit, below), click on "submit" and the certification page will appear. Print off the completed affidavit with the certification page 7. Sign the certification on the last page of the affidavit. You are certifying that all the information on the affidavit is true and accurate. The fingerprinting and criminal record background check only applies to paid employees who have contact with minor children. It DOES NOT apply to parents teaching their own children. In addition, it does not apply to those you may hire to teach music lessons, or other classes, as they are not employees of your school. 8. Once you have signed and dated the form, make several copies for your records. Mail an original via certified mail to the department of education at the address below (DO NOT request "return receipt service"). It is essential that you have a copy of the certified mailing receipt for your certified mail as proof of mailing. The CDE does not acknowledge receipt of the affidavit itself. Therefore, your certified mailing receipt will be your only proof of mailing. Keep this mailing receipt with your copies of the affidavit. The address to mail the private school affidavit is below: Private School Affidavit Request Elementary Education Office California Department of Education 1430 N Street, Suite 4401 Sacramento, CA 95814 Sincerely, Michael Smith President HSLDA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> How many of your friends would pay your legal fees? As a member of HSLDA, you have 80,000 families standing with you to protect and advance homeschool freedoms in the United States and foreign countries. 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