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General Information
It is accepted and understood that it is the primary right and obligation of the parent to choose the proper education and training for children under his care and supervision. It is recognized that home-based education is a legitimate alternative to classroom attendance for the instruction of children and that any regulation of nonpublic home-based educational programs should be sufficiently flexible to accommodate a variety of circumstances. The general assembly further declares that nonpublic home-based educational programs shall be subject only to minimum state controls which are currently applicable to other forms of nonpublic education. (CRS 22-33-104.5.1) Students seeking a high School diploma must be enrolled in a Jefferson County Public School.

Glossary of terms:
Home Based Education (HBE): is the legitimate alternative to classroom attendance for the instruction of children. Students seeking a high school diploma must be enrolled in a Jefferson County Public School.

Homebound Instruction Program (HIP): is designed to serve students who are unable to attend school for an extended time because of a physical and/or emotional health concern.

Parent’s responsibilities:

• Fill out the letter of intent 14 days prior to the beginning of home based education. Parents must fill out this form each year they are planning to provide home based education.The completed form must be signed and delivered (mail or walk-in) to the Home Based Office or faxed to 303-982-7494.

Home Based Education Office Address:
Home Based Education
C/O McLain High School
13600 West 2nd Place
Lakewood CO 80228

• Provide 172 days of instruction, averaging four (4) contact hours per day.
  
• Provide instruction that includes, but is not limited to, communication skills of reading, writing and speaking; mathematics; history; civics; literature; science; and regular courses of instruction in the Constitution of the United States as provided in section 22-1-108.
  
• Have the child evaluated when such child reaches grades three, five, seven, nine and eleven as defined in CRS 22-33-104-5 (f), using a nationally recognized standardized achievement test, and submit the results to the school district which received the letter on intent. In the case of Jeffco, to the Home Based Education Office.
  
• Create and keep educational records as defined in CRS 22-33-104-5 (g) including, but not limited to: immunization records, attendance data, test and evaluation results and deliver them within 14 days of a written request from the district.
  
• Encourage the student to attend school while the 14 day waiting period is in effect and describe the consequences of truancy if the letter of intent in not received and confirmed.

For general information, call 303-982-8597