South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 27 - Compulsory School Attendance
Section 13-27-3 - Alternative instruction--Notification--Requirements.

13-27-3. Alternative instruction--Notification--Requirements.
Upon a filing of a notification with either the Department of Education or the local district from the parent, or guardian, or other person having control of a child, the Department of Education or the local district has been notified that the child is being provided with alternative instruction in the basic skills of language arts and mathematics. The person providing instruction is not required to be certified.
No person may instruct more than twenty-two children. All instructions shall be given so as to lead to a mastery of the English language.

Source: SDC 1939, §15.3202 (2): SL 1955, ch 41, ch 15, §2; SL 1971, ch 116, §2; SL 1975, ch 128, §170; SL 1977, ch 130; SL 1981, ch 141, §2; SL 1983, ch 131, §2; SL 1992, ch 128, §1; SL 1993, ch 136; SL 1996, ch 115; SL 2003, ch 91, §2; SL 2003, ch 272 (Ex. Ord. 03-1), §63; SL 2016, ch 89, §1; SL 2017, ch 78, §2; SL 2021, ch 76, § 3.

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South Dakota Codified Laws

Title 13 - Education

Chapter 27 - Compulsory School Attendance

Section 13-27-1 - Responsibility of person controlling child--High school equivalency test preparation program--Kindergarten--Transfer from another state.

Section 13-27-1.1 - Religious exemption after eighth grade.

Section 13-27-1.2 - Promulgation of rules on high school equivalency testing.

Section 13-27-2 - Child excused from school.

Section 13-27-3 - Alternative instruction--Notification--Requirements.

Section 13-27-3.1 - Birth certificate or affidavit to be submitted--Violation as misdemeanor.