{"id":584,"date":"2020-09-27T01:36:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T01:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masondixonhomeschoolers.org\/home\/?page_id=584"},"modified":"2020-09-27T01:36:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T01:36:28","slug":"compulsory-age-law-change-effective-aug-sept-2020","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/masondixonhomeschoolers.org\/home\/legislation-and-legal-actions\/compulsory-age-law-change-effective-aug-sept-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Compulsory Age Law Change effective Aug.\/Sept. 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE AGE LAW CHANGE \u2013 Effective Aug.\/Sept. 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The PA Public School Code has recently been modified to expand compulsory attendance age.\u00a0Beginning in the 2020 school year (affidavits filed for August\/September 2020), ages 6-18 are required to be in school or possess a legitimate diploma from one of a list of sources in the new law.<\/p>\n<p>Affidavits must be filed for children who turn 6 before or on September 1.\u00a0 The child who turns 6 after September 1 does not reach compulsory attendance age until the next school year.<\/p>\n<p>There are efforts in the works to request an exemption for home educating families whose children are between the ages of 6-8 and 17-18. The most promising of these efforts is a bill currently being drafted. Paul Schemel has agreed to be co-sponsor. Other conservative representatives have as well. It is hoped that this will be a bi-partisan effort as that is more likely to be successful.<\/p>\n<p>As these efforts require input from voters, announcements will be made in the newsletter, on the webpage, on the Facebook page, and through announcement emails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE AGE LAW CHANGE \u2013 Effective Aug.\/Sept. 2020 The PA Public School Code has recently been modified to expand compulsory attendance age.\u00a0Beginning in the 2020 school year (affidavits filed for August\/September 2020), ages 6-18 are required to be in school or possess a legitimate diploma from one of a list of sources in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/masondixonhomeschoolers.org\/home\/legislation-and-legal-actions\/compulsory-age-law-change-effective-aug-sept-2020\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Compulsory Age Law Change effective Aug.\/Sept. 2020&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":22,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-584","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masondixonhomeschoolers.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masondixonhomeschoolers.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masondixonhomeschoolers.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masondixonhomeschoolers.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masondixonhomeschoolers.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masondixonhomeschoolers.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585,"href":"https:\/\/masondixonhomeschoolers.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/584\/revisions\/585"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masondixonhomeschoolers.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masondixonhomeschoolers.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}