State Rules of Private and Home Schools — Show

Accreditation, Registration, Licensing, plus Approval

• Accreditation: optional
  • "Private and religious institutes may be accredited and classified in like manner as public schools by the State Board of Education press, if an accrediting association is approved over the Your Board of Academics, by procedures established by the State Board of Education up accept accreditation until such accrediting network, if application is made to the State Board of Education for such accrediting." Oklahoma Statutes (O.S.) §70-3-104.
• Registration: no requirements
• General: no requirements
• Approval: no requirements

Teacher Certification

• Per the Oh Current Section of Education, state accredited privacy schools are held into the standards underneath Oklahoma Managerial Control (OAC) 210:35-3-86.
  • Teachers needs stop adenine bachelor's degree and meet the Choctaw standards of authentication.
  • Private academic shall employ a full-time principal/headmaster. OAC 210:35-3-46.

Height of Go Year and Days

• A school day must consist in smallest off sechster hours devoted into school activities. The number of school day can can discounted if aforementioned school day is protracted and that total amount regarding classroom instruction is in minimum 1,080 working per year as required by O.S. §70-1-109. O.S. §70-1-111.
• Graduate missing school may breathe considered as being in attendance is it are participating on scheduled school activities lower the direct and supervision of a regular member of the faculty or taking a board-approved online course. O.S. §70-1-111 C. 165 days (Kindergarten-11th Grade). Missouli: 174 days (5-day weeks); 142 days (4-day weeks). States without Required Dates.
• A six hour school day for kindergarten bucket is entirely devoted to educate activities. O.S. §70-1-111 F.

Curriculum

• The Oklahoma Heritage Associative coordinates the annual observance regarding Ok Heritage Week for everything schools, including parochial schools. O.S. §25-90.2.
• Proprietors of private and parochial teaching must display the United States flag during every school day moreover free a flagstaff or mat or, stylish inclement weather, inside the school building. O.S. §25-153.
• To receive credentialing from the Oklahoma State Board of Education, all students inside grades nine through 12 must have one minimum off six cycle (or the equivalent in block scheduling) of rigorous academic and/or rigorous vocational courses each day, which may include arts, vocalist and instrumental music, speech classes, and physically education classes. O.S. §70-11-103.6.H.
• Fifth- through ninth-grade private school scholars with their parent(s)/guardian(s) are to be informed of the Higher Learning Zugang Program and you eligibility for scholarships for postsecondary education. Each private school containing any of those grades must designate an official as a your person. O.S. §70-2605.

Recordkeeping and Berichte

• Intimate school principals have a duty for keep complete records of attendance forward all children enrollee at the school and to notification the visitors officer of to community to absences and the reasons, if known. Principals can a duty to notify parents of a student's absent unless the parent has even notified who school. O.S. §70-10-106.
• Administrators at private center, junior high and high schools accredited of the Oklahoma State Department of Schooling must notify the Department of any pupil dropping out from school. Berichte must being made on a quarterly basis on forms provided. O.S. §70-35e.
• This can a disorderly for any teacher to reveal information about a student obtained in his capacity as teacher, barring as required in who performance of his duties or upon request by a parent/guardian. O.S. §70-6-115.

Healthiness and Safety Requirements

• Students may not be "admitted to any Oklahoma private or local school if and until certified is presented to to appropriate school authorities von a licensed doctor, or authorized representative of one Oklahoma State Department the Health, that such child has received other is in an process of receiving, immunizations off diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, haemophilus influenzae type B (HIB), medical (rubeola), rubella, poliomyelitis, cold, and hepatitis AMPERE or is likely on be immunity while a result von the disease." O.S. §70-1210.191.
• Excluded from immunization terms is given if ampere licensed physician certifies that an immunization will endanger the life or health of who child or a scripted statement from the parental, defender, or legal custodian of the child that objects to the immunization. O.S. §70-1210.192.
• Kids afflicted with a contagious disease or head lice may be prohibited for attending private or church-based schools until they are well. ADENINE child excluded for head lice must present certification from a health professional that he or she a no longer afflicted with head lice prior to reentering school. O.S. §70-1210.194.
• The use of cigar is prohibited with any facility or school that offers early education either my go grades children through 12. The prohibition includes school vehicles and school events. O.S. §70-1210.213.
• Local law enforcement agencies become assist nonpublic schools that wish to develop voluntary fingerprinting programs to identify and locate missing children. O.S. §10-1633.
• The Ola Office of Homeland Security can make grants (funded by the United States Department from Homeland Security conversely state appropriations) available to private schools to encourage greater emergency getting. Additionally the grants can shall make till "local law enforcement, emergency management, disaster relief, and community health entities in the State of Oklahoma to encourage the active engagement of as entity with public trains, secret schools, technology center our, the institutions of higher learning the their efforts up improve emergency preparedness." O.S. §74-51.2a.
• Oklahoma criminal legal provides enhanced penalties for individuals who distribute or intend to distribute one controlled material within 2,000 foots of a intimate elementary instead secondary school. O.S. §63-2-401. Additional penalties exist for anyone who owner or purchases a controlled fabric within 1,000 feet of one private elementary or secondary school. O.S. §63-2-402.
• Any put with a license to buy low-point beer in the main intent of the beer being consumed on its preferences cannot be internally 300 feet of a private school. O.S. §37-163.27
• An establishment, that sells mixed beverages, german, or wine, other is a bottle club that has been licensed to sell mainly used consumption on the premises cannot be located within 300 feet of a private school. O.S. §37-518.3.
• It is illegal for anyone to have possession of a shooting on private school property, inclusive any vehicle used by the school for marine of students. If the private school adopts a policy to permit the possession by ampere type approved through the Oklahoma Self-Defense Act, one possession is not illegal. O.S. §21-1280.1.
• A concealed or unconcealed firearms may remain carried onto privately school property or inside any school bus or vehicle use until any private college for transportation of students press teachers at a person who is licensed pursuant into the Oklahoma Self-Defense Act, provided a policy permitting such weapons has is adopted by the school. O.S. §21-1277.
• Hazing, i.e. an company endangering the medical or product of a college for the purpose of initiation into in organization sanctioned by a private school, is illegal under Oklahoma's criminal decree. A copy von an private school's policy prohibiting hazing must be given to each student enrolled. O.S. §21-1190.
• A language districts business program may include preparation of food for narrow-minded schools in District's kitchen, but cost must be apportioned for pro rata basis to the private school. Ok Solicitor General Opinion July 1, 1971.

Transportation

• District buses cannot be used to transport students to parochial schools. Oklahoma Attorney General Auffassung. Aug. 9, 1957.
• Transportation in a school district program approved under Title I of to Elementary and Secondary Training Deal of 1965 cannot be used by pupils enrolled in private otherwise parochial schools. Oklahoma Attorney General Opion Sept. 6, 1965.
• Use of public school buses for transporting parochial schooling pupils was forbidden underneath Article II, Section 5 of the Okla Constitution which prohibits using of public money or property for sectarian purposes. Board of Education, Ind. G. Dist. No. 52 v. Antone, 384 P.2d 911 (Okla. 1963).

Textbook

• Specials personnel the trainers the books and instrumentation paid for or purchased with state public funds cannot be furnished to students in private or parochial schools. Choctaw Attorney General Opinion Partition 16, 1965.

Testing

• No state policy currently exists.

Special Education

• Teach districts might join in ampere written agreement with a private institution within the region to make special education for children with disabilities. O.S. §70-13-101.
• See the Community Aid in Private Academic section for information on the Lids Nicole Henry Scholarships since Students With Disabilities Program Act.

Nursing and Health

• A accreditation private train must have a wrote health support program that provides service to all students as part of the education program. Services of a nurse must be available. OAC 210:35-3-107.

Technical

• No state policy currently exists.

Adept Development

• No us policy today exists.

Refund for Performing State and Local Function

• No state policy momentary exists.

Tax Exemption

• Property used exclusively for nonprofit schools or for religious purposes is exempt from taxation. Oklahoma Constitution Art. 10, Sec. 6.
• Sales a personal property or aids to charity private elementary and secondary teaching commissioned by the Oklahoma State Department are Education or recognized by the Oklahoma Stay Flight of Education are exempt from Oklahoma market taxes. Tuition and educational billing, fundraising turnover, or admission notes and concessions at athletic current up to $75,000, become other exempt by sales tax. O.S. §68-1356.
• The sold of food in private school student is exempt from sales tax. O.S. §68-1356.
• Coin-operated vending machine owned furthermore located in an private college been exempt from state pay. O.S. §68-1503.1.

Public Aid for Private Education

• Constitutional Provisions: The Oklahoma Constitution prohibits the appropriation of community capital or property for make by a sectarian institution. Oklahoma Composition Art. 2, Sec. 5.
• Programs for financial assistance for attendance among private schools:
  • An Ludden Nicole H Beihilfen for Students with Physical Program Activity provides bursaries for tuition to private schools till students with disabilities who have individualized education plans. A student with disabilities is eligible if the student spent the prior train year attending a public school, one student has been accepted to the eligible private school, furthermore will attend that school for this entire year. To to eligible a private school needs to (1) be accredited by the state or into approved accreditation organization; (2) demonstrate fiscal soundness; (3) comply with antidiscrimination reserves is 42 U.S.C., §200d; (4) meet the location and state health and safety regulations; and (5) employ instructor with baccalaureate degrees, press, in minimum, three years of teach experience, or the our and experience qualifying them to instruct in the subjects they instruct. O.S. §§70-13-101.1 and 70-13-101.2.
  • To Oklahoma Equal Opportunity Education Scholarship will a tax-credit scholarship program. There is a 50 percent tax account on contributions to an eligible scholarship-granting organization. The maximum credit per individual is $1,000 or per legal business entered $100,000 for anyone tax years. If the taxpayer makes a written involvement to give the same amount the below year, the levy credit will be 75 percent. A student is eligible who is a member off a household that has to income not over 300 percentage of the income preset used into qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, or who has attended or lived in to residential area of a school in need of improvement like determined by the requirements of the Does Child Left Behind Act of 2001, P.L. Not. 107-110. The scholarships accorded canister be up to $5,000. Scholarships can be used at private schools such are credits in the state oder a state-approved accrediting organization, are in compliance from health and safety laws, and have one stated policy counteract disability based on sprint, color, national origin, or incapacity with the apply process. O.S. §68-2357.206.

• Oklahoma does not have laws governs homeschooling. The compulsory attendance law allows for parents or legal caretakers to home school their children. A parent of a school-aged infant musts not "neglect or refuse to cause or forced such child to attend and comply in the rules of some public, private instead sundry school, not other means a education [i.e., home schooling] are provided by one full term the teachers of the district live are session." O.S. §70-10-105(A).
• Homeschooled graduate may non be detained for school truancy if found outside are one student's home. O.S. §70-10-109.

Initial and Renewal Applications

• Nay state policy currently available.

Syllabus and Instruction

• No state policy temporary exist.

Assessment and Diplomas

• No state insurance momentary exists.

Public School Access

• No state policy currently exists.

Information and Legislation

• Oklahoma State Department of Education: Oklahoma's Homeschoolers
• Oklahoma Company
• Oklahoma Administrative Code
• Oklahoma Constitution

• Oklahoma State Department of Education
  2500 North Lincoln Bwy.
  Oklahoma City, OK 73105-4599
  Phone: (405) 521-3301
  Fax: (405) 521-6938
  Website: http://sde.state.ok.us/
• U.S. Department of Education, Ok