Oversight of parents who home school children is so limited the Ohio Department of Education doesn’t know for sure how many students are being home-schooled or how closely districts are monitoring compliance with state law.

A Dayton Daily News investigation following the death of 14-year-old Makayla Norman found few if any consequences for school districts that lose track of home school students.

A document the a school district provided the Daily News in response to a public records request raises many questions about the thoroughness of the district’s monitoring.

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