If the services are that valuable to the family, then the parents do have a tough choice on their hands. But the schools do not receive the same compensation for ISP's as they do for IEP's. If a parent wants that type of level of service, they must attend the school full time.
Did you see post #63 by metmom? She quotes the NY regulations regarding an IEP here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995460/posts?page=63#63
I don’t know the difference between an ISP and an IEP, and the article isn’t making distinctions.
I can understand the schools knocking the service down to the federal minimum, but not restricting homeschoolers from these services completely. What’s being done is not right because, not only does New York collect school taxes from homeschoolers, it requires them to report to the public schools, and now it wants to deny them services.
It seems New York found a legal loophole allowing the state to deny these services to homeschool students probably to push special needs students into school. If it’s going to deny services, the state at least should stop regulating homeschooling there so heavily.
NY has not just cut back but stopped it completely.
Post 63 is the NYS Homeschool Regulations that were enacted in 1988. I’m not sure how old the section on special needs is but I’ve had that copy of the regs for YEARS. It’s newer than the 1988 ones but not by much, so what I posted from the regs is not new by any means. I’m guessing the copy I have is about 8-10 years old.