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Lake Stevens School District
HOMELINK
OPERATING GUIDELINES
2008 - 2009
HomeLink:
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Operates as an alternative school under WAC 392-121-182 Alternative Learning Experience Requirements. Consistent with the State Constitution, the HomeLink program is non-sectarian.
- Recognizes the parent as the primary teacher and works as a resource to the family to ensure a high quality learning experience for each child consistent within the expectations of the student’s family and the State’s Essential Academic Learning Requirements.
- Enrolls current Washington homeschooled students with parents committed to using the community as a key learning resource. Parents are required to have a minimum of 90 consecutive school days of documented homeschooling experience within one year of enrolling their children full-time at HomeLink. Parents who are just beginning the home-school experience may enroll their children on a part-time basis under probation guidelines with re-evaluations of program status every 30 days.
- Interviews each student and parent to establish an understanding about the school and to develop a student learning plan. This written plan designates an effective period and average weekly time commitment for each content area as well as includes the course learning goals, curriculum resources, learning activities, and assessments.
- Requires all parents to attend the HomeLink program with their children in grades K-8. Parents who are just beginning the homeschool experience must also be on-site with their children in grades 9-12 for the first 90 school days. Parents of high school children who have accumulated three warnings regarding behavior, performance, or misuse of site-time will be required to develop an Intervention Plan and be on-site with their children for a 30-day probationary period at the end of which the student’s status will be re-evaluated. Failure to comply with the written requirements may result in the student’s dismissal from the program.
- Requires full time students to complete a minimum of twenty-five (25) hours (4th - 12th grade), twenty (20) hours (1st - 3rd grade), or ten (10) hours (kindergarten) of work on their student learning plans each week. A minimum of five (5) hours of this time each week is to be spent at the HomeLink program site (only 2.5 hours each week for a kindergartner).
To verify the time spent on students’ learning plans, parents sign a monthly statement certifying that their child(ren) has/have met the hours contained in the learning plan.
- Requires parents to volunteer, on site, a minimum of three hours per quarter, per family, in classrooms, on parent committees, or on program projects.
- Requires full-time district students to participate in the state-mandated and district assessments and tests.
- Requires parents and students to meet and/or communicate with the assigned HomeLink teacher advisor on a monthly basis to review progress on the learning plan.
- Allocates specific program funds for the purchase of educational services and resources, with parent input and the approval by the HomeLink program staff and administration, determined necessary to complete the Student Learning Plan. Only district-approved, non-sectarian services and resources may be purchased with program funds. All non-consumable materials are returned at the end of the course as property of the HomeLink program.
- Gives priority for new enrollment to students living in the Lake Stevens School District. Requires a non-resident transfer request form for each student who lives outside the Lake Stevens School District boundaries. This form is obtained from the school district where the student lives and is submitted for approval to the district and is only for attendance at HomeLink
- Involves parents on an advisory committee to oversee the operation of the HomeLink program and make recommendations in the selection of each program staff member.
< See the Parent Handbook for further details. >
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