FOIAs by homeschool advocate reveal proposed regulations

FOIAs by homeschool advocate reveal proposed regulations

In March 2025, the State’s Office of the Child Advocate (OCA) proposed language to state lawmakers to strengthen the state’s homeschool regulations. These proposals followed the then-breaking story of a Waterbury man who was trapped in his mother’s home for twenty years, after being withdrawn from school.  The proposed language of that homeschool regulation, as well as conversations between state officials surrounding it, was recently uncovered …