Homeschooling families in Connecticut are urging the governor to withhold his signature from a bill they say would impose burdensome and unfair restrictions on at-home education.
The legislation, passed along party lines in the Democrat-dominated state Legislature on May 4, would go into effect in 2027.
“They are taking something away from the homeschoolers that they have always had in Connecticut,” said Peter Wolfgang of Waterbury, executive director of the Family Institute of Connecticut and a homeschooling father of seven. “We have always had strong freedom to homeschool here.”
The new Connecticut homeschool law, officially titled “An Act Concerning the Provision of Parent-Managed Learning,” would require parents to register their “intent” to homeschool in person with the state Department of Education through the local school principal before they can withdraw a child from public education.
Additional requirements include an annual “demonstration of instruction” for accountability concerning a portfolio of student work, test results or other records, and a state Department of Children and Families (DCF) check, including for all those 18 years or older living in the same house as the child, to determine whether any are on the child abuse-neglect registry or currently being investigated.
The entire process is
