These are educational services provided to students who are unable to attend school due to a medical or physical condition, or a severe emotional or psychological disability. Home and hospital instruction programs are designed to support students in keeping up with their studies while they are unable to attend school, and are intended to be temporary. Home and hospital instruction program staff work with students’ current schools to ensure continuity of instruction and service, to the greatest extent possible taking into account the student’s condition. 

There are two primary means by which students are determined eligible for Home and Hospital Instruction:
1) The family, working with their outside service medical team, can submit an application through their school nurse for temporary Home and Hospital Instruction. More information can be found here.
2) If the CSE determines that the disabling condition "confines the student to the home," (200.1w) the CSE may discuss whether home instruction is the Least Restrictive Environment per state and Federal law.

For students placed on home instruction via the Committee on Special Education (CSE):

• Students in grades 7-12 must at a minimum receive 15 hours of home instruction per week, as determined by the CSE
• Students in grades K-6 must at a minimum receive 10 hours of home instruction per week, as determined by the CSE

Hospital instruction: Students receive instruction once they are admitted to a hospital setting. Instruction is provided to the extent a student is medically able, and hospital physicians make this determination. Hospital instruction ends when the student is discharged from the hospital. If the student is still too ill to return to school, parents should proactively submit a request for home instruction before the student is discharged from the hospital, to minimize the delay in transitioning to home instruction.