[Tired of Taxes]

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.

[SoftballMominVA]

An ISP = Individual Service Plan. An ISP is for students not enrolled in their home school and the school is not responsible for paying for the education because the parent has chosen a different method of education. An ISP offers 90 minutes of service time a month. There is some wiggle room as to WHERE the services are delivered and HOW and WHEN they are delivered, but 90 minutes is guaranteed.

An IEP = Individual Education Plan. An IEP is for students with disabilities who are enrolled in either the public school or a school that the school is responsible for paying the tuition. An IEP outlines specific goals, accommodations, and service times, and the services are required to be offered within the normal school day

Both are legal documents, both are legislated under IDEIA. These regulations can be accessed by looking up Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act.

You are right that the article does not make a distinction, but from talking to a former principal with whom I teach who just came from NY, I found out that many districts were going far, FAR beyond what was required, at great expense to the districts for children not enrolled in the schools. If the children are not enrolled in the public school, then the school does not receive the allocation from the US Gov't or the NY gov't. People here are all the time talking about how to make schools go broke by withholding their kids. Well, this is in essence the blowback. The NY Education dept is saying that "if you want the service, we want the $$, so come on in, the water's fine." The NY governemnt is not collecting school taxes if the kids are not enrolled.