• Kansas provides funding for private education:

  • Low-income Students Scholarship: Provides low-income students scholarship money for attending nonpublic schools. Funds come from donations, which result in tax credits for those who contribute.

Accredited schools must teach reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, spelling, English grammar and composition, history of the United States and of Kansas, civil government and citizenship, health and hygiene, and other subjects as the Kansas State Board of Education determines.

Accredited schools must hire certified teachers, while non-accredited schools must have teachers that are "competent instructors."

In Kansas, school lunch requirements, including funding for schools offering the National School Lunch Program, are managed by the Department of Education.

Private schools must offer instruction for a period of time that is “substantially equivalent” to the period of time public schools are open (465 hours per year for kindergarten, 1,116 hours per year for grades 1 through 11, and 1,086 hours per year for grade 12).

Schools must receive documentation of student identity and birth date. Additionally, schools must maintain attendance records and report students who are truant.

Students must receive a health assessment and provide records of immunizations prior to enrolling in school. Private schools must also provide vision and hearing screenings to students. Tornado and fire drills are also required to take place throughout the school year.

Students of accredited private or parochial schools are entitled to transportation along the regular route of the school bus if transportation is provided to public school students.

Non-accredited schools are not required to test students, but accredited schools must have 95% of enrolled students participate in testing.