Homeschooling Families Push Back on Proposed Regulations in Connecticut

The proposed law would require homeschooling parents to provide their local school districts with proof of ‘equivalent’ instruction annually.

Clementine Sweeney, 10, studies during home schooling in New Rochelle, New York, on March 18, 2020. John Moore/Getty Images

When Gina Stewart began homeschooling her oldest child 30 years ago, there were no regulations requiring her to notify the state if, how, or what she was teaching her son in their house.

Stewart, in the years that followed, informed her local district annually, as a courtesy, that her boys wouldn’t be enrolled in public schools.