The N.C. General Assembly completed its 2007-2008 session this month after passing only a few bills directly impacting homeschooling. Two changes were made to the home education statute, both of them requiring the Division of Nonpublic Education to make information available to homeschoolers through their website. Section 115C-565 was amended to include the following:
The Division of Nonpublic Education, Department of Administration, shall also provide to home schools information about cervical cancer, cervical dysplasia, human papillomavirus, and the vaccines available to prevent these diseases. This information may be provided electronically or on the Division's Web page. This information shall include the causes and symptoms of these diseases, how they are transmitted, how they may be prevented by vaccination, including the benefits and possible side effects of vaccination, and the places where parents and guardians may obtain additional information and vaccinations for their children.
The Division of Nonpublic Education, Department of Administration, shall also provide to home schools information on the manner in which a parent may lawfully abandon a newborn baby with a responsible person, in accordance with G.S. 7B‑500. This information may be provided electronically or on the Division's Web page.
The bills required the same information to be distributed to students in public and private schools as well, and was not targeting homeschoolers.
A number of other bills which would have effected homeschooling in one way or another died in committee. These included proposals for raising the compulsory attendance age to 17 or 18 (H1474 and H2289 = S1812); tax credits for special needs children who attend nonpublic schools (H388 = S2059); and tax credits for nonpublic school students generally (S702 = H430 and S703 = H421).
One additional effort would have required public school students to meet the standard defined for homeschoolers. House Bill 494 would have replaced the North Carolina-specific tests with nationally standardized tests, as required of nonpublic schools since 1978 and homeschoolers since 1988.
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