AB 2926

Bill Subjects

Abstract

Existing law generally requires each person between 6 and 18 years of age to attend the public full-time day school or continuation school in the school district in which the residency of his or her parent or legal guardian is located. Existing law provides various exemptions to this requirement, including an exemption for children who are being instructed in a private full-time day school by persons capable of teaching, as specified. Existing law requires every person, firm, association, partnership, or corporation offering or conducting private school instruction on the elementary or high school level to file with the Superintendent of Public Instruction an affidavit or statement, under penalty of perjury, by the owner or other head setting forth specified information relating to the private school, as provided. This bill would require the Superintendent to establish a broadly representative and diverse advisory committee to advise the Superintendent and the State Board of Education on all appropriate matters relative to home schools, which the bill would define. The bill would require the advisory committee, on or before July 1, 2020, to make recommendations to the Superintendent and state board on the appropriateness and feasibility of imposing additional requirements, as provided, on home schools. The bill would require the Superintendent and state board, on or before January 1, 2021, in consultation with the advisory committee, to make recommendations to the Legislature and the Governor relating to imposing additional requirements on home schools. The bill would require the State Department of Education to provide staff for the advisory committee. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2022.