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Read. Follow. Verify.Oklahoma requires parents to file transfer notices for private or home schooling and excludes them from dropout reports
Last action · April 1, 2025: Second Reading referred to Education Committee then to Appropriations Committee
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What This Bill Proposed
Parents or legal guardians transferring a public school student to a private school, home school, or alternative education must file a with the student's current or most recent school district within 10 days. The State Department of Education must provide a standard form online, and public schools must keep copies in their main offices. Students with a filed Notice of Intent are excluded from annual reporting requirements, effective July 1, 2025, with an emergency clause.
Parents shifting children from public schools to private or home schooling must comply with a 10-day notification timeline to ensure proper documentation and prevent students from being misclassified as dropouts.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Parents and legal guardians
Parents transferring children to home schools or private schools must file a Notice of Intent within 10 days.
Public school districts
School districts must receive Notices of Intent, keep physical forms available in their main offices, and adjust dropout reporting accordingly.
State Department of Education
The Department must create and host a standard Notice of Intent form on its website and compile annual dropout statistics.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · passed the House · in Senate committee.
Procedural history
13 actions- Apr 1, 2025SenateCommitteeSecond Reading referred to Education Committee then to Appropriations Committee
- Mar 31, 2025SenateIntroducedFirst Reading
- Mar 31, 2025HouseEngrossed, signed, to Senate
- Mar 27, 2025HouseCommitteeReferred for engrossment
- Mar 27, 2025HouseThird Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 79 Nays: 7
- Mar 27, 2025HouseGeneral Order
Show 7 earlier actions
- Feb 26, 2025HouseFloorCR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Education Oversight Committee
- Feb 17, 2025HouseAuthored by Senator Stanley (principal Senate author)
- Feb 17, 2025HouseFloorPolicy recommendation to the Education Oversight committee; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Common Education
- Feb 4, 2025HouseCommitteeReferred to Common Education
- Feb 4, 2025HouseCommitteeSecond Reading referred to Education Oversight
- Feb 3, 2025HouseAuthored by Representative Grego
- Feb 3, 2025HouseIntroducedFirst Reading
Version history
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Sources
www.oklegislature.gov
Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 50)
- Controversy20Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz25Current news / social attention level
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