{"id":600,"date":"2011-10-10T09:10:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T16:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/?page_id=600"},"modified":"2025-06-04T07:58:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T14:58:20","slug":"state-laws","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/free-info\/state-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"State Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Home schools have been legal in Arkansas since 1985. The Arkansas Legislature conducted a major overhaul of Arkansas\u2019 home school laws in 1997. The Home School Legal Defense Association ranks Arkansas\u2019 home school laws as moderate. States such as Oklahoma and Texas have fewer restrictions on home schools, while states like New York and Pennsylvania have more restrictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click to see the Arkansas home school law:<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dese.ade.arkansas.gov\/Files\/FINAL_COPY_for_Secretary_of_State_filing_--_May_19,_2023_Legal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Home School Rules and Regulations<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arkleg.state.ar.us\/Acts\/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2007%2FPublic%2F&amp;file=824.pdf&amp;ddBienniumSession=2007%2FR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Act 824 of 2007<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arkleg.state.ar.us\/Home\/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2017R%2FPublic%2FACT635.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Act 635 of 2017<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Amendments to the Home School Law\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arkleg.state.ar.us\/Home\/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2017R%2FPublic%2FACT863.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Act 863 of 2017<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Concerning the Enrollment or Re-enrollment of a Home Schooled Student in a Public School<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arkleg.state.ar.us\/Home\/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2017R%2FPublic%2FACT592.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Act 592 of 2017<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Concerning the Participation of Home Schooled Students in Interscholastic Activities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arkleg.state.ar.us\/Home\/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2017R%2FPublic%2FACT453.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Act 453 of 2017<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Concerning the Participation of Home Schooled Students in Interscholastic Activities in Private Schools<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arkleg.state.ar.us\/Home\/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2017R%2FPublic%2FACT173.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Act 173 of 2017<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; To Allow a Student Who Attends a Private School or a Home School to Enroll in an Academic Course within the Public School <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home schools have been legal in Arkansas since 1985. The Arkansas Legislature conducted a major overhaul of Arkansas\u2019 home school laws in 1997. The Home School Legal Defense Association ranks Arkansas\u2019 home school laws as moderate. States such as Oklahoma and Texas have fewer restrictions on home schools, while states like New York and Pennsylvania [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":511,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-600","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2887,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/600\/revisions\/2887"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}