Boone/Winnebago County Regional Office of Education

Rockford is in Winnebago County and part of the Boone/Winnebago ROE. They cut right to the quick with “home school” information:

Home Schooling Registration Forms
Information on Parent-Taught Home Instruction is available from the Regional Office of Education. This information outlines the rights and responsibilities of a parent under Illinois law. Illinois court decisions have [...]

Lake County Regional Office of Education

Here’s Lake County ROE’s information.

Home Schooling
The Illinois School Code and Case Law permit home schooling as an option for parents who wish to do so. The law requires that the child who is home schooled receives an education at least equivalent to the public school program, the instruction is in the English language and [...]

St. Clair County Regional Office of Education

St. Clair County ROE has their own version of Homeschooling Faqs posted. Here’s the first answer and you get the idea about their agenda. They go right to the(ir) point:

What do I have to do to start homeschooling?
Q:What do I have to do to start homeschooling?
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A: Register with the state.
Fill out a registration form [...]

ROE 12-Clay, Crawford, Jasper and Lawrence Counties

ROE 12 (Clay County, Crawford County, Jasper County, Lawrence County, Richland County) calls in homeschoolers on a regular basis to the Truancy Review Board..
I don’t see anything on their website about homeschooling, but might have missed it.

One homeschooler stood up to them and refused to conform. Hopefully there have been more. Apparently [...]

DuPage County Regional Office of Education

The Regional Offices of Education work with the Illinois State Board of Education. Often they take their cues from ISBE as related in the DuPage County ROE website that has an ISBE Legal Memorandum [Homeschooling and Requirements of the School Code] posted. It’s a legal opinion from school lawyers. Other lawyer’s opinions may differ, of [...]

Illinois School Authorities Stepping on Homeschool Toes

We have gathered Regional Offices of Education and Illinois State Board of Education website information and references that have been collected by various means. There are concerns about the requirements on the websites and the over-reaching of school authorities.

This compilation was started on Corn and Oil, shared on the IL Homeschool Freedom Watch list [...]