Working draft · Not adopted
Proposed text for review. No governing body has adopted this Standard.
Interscholastic Competition Standard for Home-Education Programs, Teams, and Students
This is the Markdown source for a proposed, voluntary interscholastic Standard that organizations serving home-educated students may adopt as schools under the Standard’s defined meaning. Newton Prep is a prospective adopter, and the Standard is intended for adoption by other schools as well. No organization or governing body has adopted it yet.
The broader project seeks common rules that give competing UIL, TAPPS, and SPC schools confidence in schools that roster home-educated students. It also seeks an accountable governing authority that can address payments to officials and treatment of officials, including concerns raised by TASO. Program administration may be assigned to a qualified organization under a defined agreement; none has been selected. A longer-term question is whether UIL or TAPPS might create a membership category for such schools.
Drafting notes
Future modules should address school governance, accountability for payments to officials, and treatment of officials. Adoption, administration, enforcement authority, and any relationship with UIL, TAPPS, SPC, or TASO remain to be specified.
The open and durable stewardship principle in the opening provisions is meant to preserve identifiable published versions and allow the Standard to outlast its original author or any administrator. It does not prescribe blockchain or another verification technology. The files remain editable working drafts until a version is formally published.
Source map
standard/00-purpose-and-conformance.md: purpose, scope, and the restrictive conformance rule.standard/04-provisional-governance.md: proposed interim steward authority and path to the 2027–28 Standard.standard/05-schools-and-tracks.md: proposed signatory-school commitments and three conformance tracks.standard/06-organization-and-administration.md: proposed division of responsibility among signatory schools, the steward, and an administrator.standard/07-classification-of-violations-and-protests.md: proposed reporting, investigation, contest remedies, and activity-specific sanctions.standard/08-committee-meetings-and-appeals.md: reserved headings for hearings and appeals.standard/09-standard-and-amendments.md: reserved headings for standard-setting, interpretations, and amendments.standard/09a-classification-and-grouping.md: reserved subject for modules and any future competitive grouping.standard/09b-non-discrimination-in-contests.md: reserved non-discrimination policy and activity-specific provisions.standard/09c-contests.md: reserved contest, calendar, and rescheduling headings.standard/10-hs-base.md: normative HS-BASE v0.5 home-education classification.standard/20-student-eligibility.md: proposed v0.2 high-school eligibility text for discussion.standard/21-waiver-of-eligibility-rules.md: reserved waiver headings.standard/22-awards.md: reserved awards headings.standard/23-records-publications-and-finances.md: P–R subjects reserved at the chapter level.notes/hs-base-test-vectors.md: non-normative examples used to test HS-BASE.sources/texas-authorities.md: authorities and citation notes.sources/student-eligibility-authorities.md: current UIL and TAPPS rule references.notes/student-eligibility-questions.md: policy choices for the next revision.notes/student-eligibility-test-vectors.md: boundary cases for age, graduation, and the high-school clock.notes/uil-m-heading-map.md: UIL Subchapter M headings and their proposed Standard analogues.notes/constitution-crosswalk.md: top-down drafting sequence modeled on constitutional structure.notes/uil-a-c-review.md: review of UIL’s opening subjects and what to adopt, adapt, or defer.notes/uil-e-review.md: organization and administration comparison with UIL Subchapter E.notes/program-roadmap.md: broader objectives and open governance questions.
Only files in standard/ state proposed conformance requirements. Notes and source summaries aid interpretation but do not add requirements. HS-BASE classifies the educational relationship; later modules may address student eligibility and a separate UIL academic-conformance option.