OMAHA, Neb. —

In the state of Nebraska, children can attend three types of schools: accredited, approved or exempt. Exempt schools are seeing an influx of students.

In the 2024-25 school year, more than 16,000 students were registered into exempt schools, like homeschooling, according the the Nebraska Department of Education.

Each year, the Nebraska Department of Education compiles and releases a report on participants in Nebraska Exempt schools. They're a full data breakdown into the number of families participating in exempt schools across the state, and it tracks changes dating all the way back to 1985.

"If you do look at the numbers and you run a trajectory line across the data, you will see that it is on a constant increase," Kathryn Dillow, with the Nebraska Homeschool Network, s

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