DelawareDelaware education officials study homeschool access to school activities
Delaware’s education department must study ways homeschool students might join school activities and report its recommendations to state officials by December 31, 2027.
What it does
Delaware’s education department must study whether homeschool students could join activities at public schools, charter schools, or vocational-technical schools, and recommend how participation might work.
Argument forThe study could help schools identify ways homeschool students might join activities while considering eligibility and effects on students already enrolled.
Argument againstThe required study may take staff time from the Department and schools as they examine participation, its effects, and possible costs.
More detail
The Department must study whether homeschool students could join public school activities and recommend how participation might work. The study covers public school-sponsored activities at students’ assigned schools, charter schools, and vocational-technical schools. It may also consider partnerships with nonpublic schools. The Department must consider a possible pilot, which activities could include homeschool students, eligibility, effects on public school students, and costs and ways to cover them. The Department must send its findings and recommendations to state officials by December 31, 2027. The Act expires when notice of that submission is published in the Register of Regulations.
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- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
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History
- 2026
- Jul 23Signed by Governor Matt MeyerBecame Law
- Jun 18Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENTPassed Senate
- Vote recorded Passage. Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 10Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 5 On Its MeritsMinor
- May 21Assigned to Education Committee in SenateMinor
- Vote recorded Passage. Result: pass.Lower
- May 21Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENTPassed House
- May 21Amendment HA 1 to HB 350 - Passed In House by Voice VoteMajor
- Apr 22Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 1 Favorable, 10 On Its MeritsMinor
- Apr 21Amendment HA 1 to HB 350 - Introduced and Placed With BillMinor
- Apr 9Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in HouseIntroduced
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