Division of Non-Public Education
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Frequently Asked Home School Question Topics

NOTE:  Before reading the following, it is recommended that you read the
State of North Carolina Home School Information Packet.

Topic #24 -- Visits/Meetings With A DNPE Staff Member


What Are Record Review Meetings?

For several years, the NC Division of Non-Public Education (DNPE) has utilized a program called Record Review Meetings to monitor home school record-keeping compliance to State statutes.  The program involves the following:

1.  Any home school administrator who (since filing with DNPE an initial
     Notice of Intent to Operate a School) has not yet met with a DNPE
     staff member on at least one occasion to evaluate the school’s legal
     status is eligible to be invited to voluntarily participate in this
     program (in lieu of an on site visit to the school).  Only schools which
     are now in their second consecutive school year of being listed
     with DNPE are randomly selected for the invitation.

2.  DNPE establishes a temporary office space for a day or more in
     major cities throughout the State.  Record Review Meetings are
     scheduled statewide each school year for two weeks within each
     school month between November 1 and May 31.

3.  Each qualifying family living within a one-hour drive of the meeting
     location near them receives by mail (about 20 days in advance) an
     invitation to participate.  It gives the location; directions to it; dates
     and items to be brought to the private meeting with the DNPE staff
     member; and, the name of the DNPE staff member conducting the
     meeting.

4.  The invitation asks the family to call the DNPE Raleigh office within
     10 days to select a specific convenient appointment date and time.

5.  At the selected date and time, the parent and the DNPE official
     meet for about 25 minutes to review the legal records required by
     each home school.

           The Record Review Meetings concept is a more efficient method of meeting with individual home school families than doing home visits, thanks to the high degree of voluntary participation of home schoolers in past years.

          Newer home school families are especially encouraged to plan to participate in the Record Review Meetings Program when they are eligible to do so.  Also, see Historical Perspective and Purpose.

          The next meeting dates and locations (for the 08-09 school year) will be announced here by late October, 2008.


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