Oklahoma Homeschooling
Get to know more about homeschooling laws in Oklahoma as you explore our website devoted to the needs of home educators in this state. Connect with other homeschoolers for support and socialization, learn how to incorporate different ideas and homeschooling methods into your approch to homeschooling, and read out dealing with special challenges you may face. We offer all this and much, much more!
- Ready to begin? Check out our "Beginning to Homeschool" section.
- Is homeschooling the best choice for your family? Learn more about the advantages of homeschooling.
- Read the actual laws regulating home education in Oklahoma and get summaries of these laws by homeschooling experts.
- Browse through our curriculum reviews and lists, and find what will work best for you and your child.
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Home Educators' Resource Organization (HERO of Oklahoma) FAQ
This FAQ list covers the basics of homeschooling in Oklahoma.
Oklahoma Homeschooling
Email support list for home educators in Oklahoma. Subjects of discussion may include upcoming events, legislative action, media coverage of homeschooling, and practical and philosophical homeschooling discussions. You also will have an opportunity to network with individuals and group. This email list is sponsored by HERO of Oklahoma.
40 O.S. 80
The age and schooling certificate shall not be approved until the
parent or guardian of such child shall present a school attendance
certificate as hereinafter prescribed. A duplicate of such age and
schooling certificate shall be filled out and sent by the school
officer, before whom the same is made, to the Commissioner of Labor.
The blank forms for school attendance certificate and for the age and
schooling certificate shall be supplied to the principal, headmaster,
or equivalent ad...
Santa Fe National Historic Trail
Between 1821 and 1880, the Santa Fe Trail was primarily a commercial highway connecting Missouri and Santa Fe, New Mexico. From 1821 until 1846, it was an international commercial highway used by Mexican and American traders. In 1846, the Mexican-American War began. The Army of the West followed the Santa Fe Trail to invade New Mexico. When the Treaty of Guadalupe ended the war in 1848, the Santa Fe Trail became a national road connecting the United States to the new southwest territories. Comme...
Licensing & State Laws in Oklahoma
Oklahoma uses a multi-stage licensing process (Graduated Driver Licensing – or GDL) for teens. This system allows teens to gradually gain exposure to complex driving situations, easing them into driving over an extended period of time. The learner permit and intermediate stages are key steps.
VORT Practical Tools
VORT's products are recognized world-wide as practical and effective tools for family-centered developmental assessment and instruction. Offers the HELP (Hawaii Early Learning Profile), curriculum-based assessment covering Cognitive, Language, Gross Motor, Fine Motor, Social, Self-Help for working with children ages birth-six years and their families. HELP is used to identify needs, track growth and development, and determine "next steps" (individual objectives).
Technology Centers in Oklahoma
Career Tech's complete statewide list of Technology Centers with a map.
AmblinOkies
This group is intended for Okies using at least portions of Ambleside Online's materials and philosophies.
Oklahoma Requirements for High School Graduation
Provided by the Oklahoma State Department of Education, this website lists the current requirements for obtaining a diploma from a public high school.
Oklahoma Higher Education
Comprehensive listing of all schools of higher education in Oklahoma with links to their individual websites.
Office of Standards and Curriculum: Curriculum Links
Curriculum Links contains a host of links to subject-area resources for lesson plans and student activities. Provided by the Oklahoma State Department of Education.
70 O.S. 11-103
A. Courses of instruction approved by the State Board of
Education for use in school years prior to 1993-94 shall be those
courses that are necessary to ensure:
1. The teaching of the necessary basic skills of learning and
communication, including reading, English, writing, the use of
numbers and science; and
2. The teaching of citizenship in the United States, in the
State of Oklahoma, and in other countries, through the study of the
United States Constitution, the amendments...
Attorney General of Oklahoma - Opinion 73-129 (1973)
An Attorney General's Opinion, No. 73-129, was issued in response to four questions submitted by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. In it, the Constitution, the Statutes, and several court cases were quoted to answer the Superintendent's questions.
Unschooling and The Law in Oklahoma
Homeschooling is a right guaranteed by the Constitution of Oklahoma, and by state statute. Oklahoma has placed very few legal restrictions on homeschooling, and as a result it is very easy to meet the state requirements. Parents can provide for their child any kind of education they choose.
Fort Smith National Historic Site
At Fort Smith National Historic Site you can walk where soldiers drilled, pause along the Trail of Tears, and stand where justice was served. The park includes the remains of two frontier forts and the Federal Court for the Western District of Arkansas. Exhibits in the visitor center focus on Fort Smith’s military history from 1817 – 1871, western expansion, Judge Isaac C. Parker and the federal court’s impact on Indian Territory, U.S. Deputy Marshals and outlaws, Federal Indian policy, and Indi...
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