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Similarities
Differences
• CPI Report Form A must be filed with your resident
school district by Sept 1st or within 2 weeks of
removing your child from school.
• Dual enrollment is permitted allowing students access
to public school services, activities, classes, and
materials as available from the school district and as
the student meets the eligibility requirements. Dual
enrolled CPI students must receive at least 1/4 of their
instruction via Competent Private Instruction.
• AEA and public school services are available to special
needs students educated under CPI guidelines
through dual enrollment.
• Eligible for Parent Taught Driver Education.
• Parents must provide at least 148 days of instruction
per school year, with 37 days per school quarter.
• CPI Option 1 with Teacher of Your Choice: You must retain a
teacher with a valid Iowa teaching certificate or practitioner
license appropriate to the grade level of your student and
include that teacher’s name and folder number on the CPI
Report Form A. Teachers must meet with the student and
parents at least twice ever 45 days of instruction and one
out of every two visits must be face-to-face.
• CPI Option 1 with HSAP* Teacher: Students must be
enrolled in the HSAP then the public school will assign a
HSAP supervising teacher. The HSAP teacher must meet
with the student and parent at least four times every 45
days of instruction and one out of ever two visits must be
face-to-face.
• CPI Option 2, with Opt-In Reporting: Annual assessment
must be completed by May 1 and the results filed by June
30th. Acceptable assessments are listed on our website.
Homeschool Options
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IPI
Options with no initial reporting
and no public school services
Independent Private Instruction or
Competent Private Instruction Option 2 with Opt-Out Reporting
CPI
Option 2
with Opt-Out
Reporting
Similarities
Differences
• No initial filing requirements.
• Can receive free testing at their
resident public school.
• Eligible for Parent Taught Driver
Education.
• Access to public school driver
education without dual-
enrollment.
• Access to one specific component
of Senior Year Plus: concurrent
enrollment classes at Iowa
Community colleges.
• No AEA or public school services
available for special needs students.
• Home educators operating under the IPI guidelines may instruct up to four
unrelated students, although no payment may be received for the instruction.
The instruction of unrelated students is not addressed under CPI.
• IPI: Parents must provide instruction in these 5 subjects: reading, language
arts, mathematics, science and social studies, but there is no legally defined
minimal number of instructional days.
• CPI Option 2 with Opt-Out: Has no required subjects but does require parents
to provide at least 148 days of instruction per school year, with 37 days per
school quarter.
• Follow-up Reporting: IPI parents are required to respond to a written request
for information about IPI programs from the Iowa Department of Education
or local school district superintendent.
(Visit our website for a form to help
you respond to a request for this information.)
CPI Option 2 with Opt-Out has
no initial or follow-up reporting requirements.
Options with reporting and
access to public school services
Competent Private Instruction Option 1 (with your chosen
teacher or a HSAP* teacher) or Option 2 with Opt-In Reporting
*Public School Home School Assistance Program
CPI
Option 2
with Opt-In
Reporting
CPI
Option 1
w/ Teacher of
your choice
CPI
Option 1
w/ HSAP*
Teacher