<p>In Illinois, home schooling is effectively governed by a court decision from the early 1950s. The judge determined that home schools should be treated as private schools. Private schools are unregulated by state education authorities.
As a result, there is no obligation in Illinois to make state or school district authorities know you are home schooling, nor are there any monitoring or testing requirements.
There was a study (which I can’t quickly reference) which found that there is no difference in the educational performance of home schoolers by amount of state regulation. This should surprise no one, IMO. If you could regulate your way to a better education, it would have happened by now.</p>