Gov. Kim Reynolds signed House File 2754 on May 12, 2026, a wide-ranging school-choice law best known for its charter-school funding changes — but it also quietly deregulated homeschooling. Two old limits are gone: the rule that an independent private instructor could teach no more than four unrelated students at once, and the ban on charging tuition or fees for homeschool instruction.
The driver is openly stated — it's the latest step in Iowa Republicans' multi-year school-choice agenda, with Reynolds framing it as letting "tax dollars follow" students to whatever setting families choose.
For Iowa families, the practical effect is more flexibility to form and run larger group instruction and co-op-style arrangements without bumping the old four-student ceiling, and the ability to charge for that instruction. Supporters call it removing red tape; some Democrats warned during the session that loosening limits on group instruction spaces raises child-safety questions, since those settings don't face the same oversight as schools.