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More blacks choosing to home-school their children
- By Houston Chronicle
- Published 08/24/2008
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JOHNNY HANSON CHRONICLE
Breanna Cotton, 14, left, and Riah Cotton, 12, go over plans for the school year with their father, Paul. The Cotton family started home schooling two years ago after the parents became dissatisfied with public school.
Home schooling has steadily gained momentum in the black community in the past eight years and is expected to continue to grow, say home school experts.
No school like home
- By Guardian (UK)
- Published 08/18/2008
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Home education can be 'astonishingly efficient', says a new study, writes Jessica Shepherd. Do you agree? Ian Fisher, like three-quarters of a millon other 16-year-olds, is waiting to get his GCSE results in two days' time. But, education-wise, that is where the similarity between him and the vast majority of his peers ends, because Ian has never set foot in a school.
Homeschoolers Threaten Our Cultural Comfort
- By Ed News
- Published 08/18/2008
- Daily EdNews , Home School , K-12
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Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Tupelo, Ms.
You see them at the grocery, or in a discount store.
It's a big family by today's standards - "just like stair steps," as the old folks say. Freshly scrubbed boys with neatly trimmed hair and girls with braids, in clean but unfashionable clothes follow mom through the store as she fills her no-frills shopping list.
You see them at the grocery, or in a discount store.
It's a big family by today's standards - "just like stair steps," as the old folks say. Freshly scrubbed boys with neatly trimmed hair and girls with braids, in clean but unfashionable clothes follow mom through the store as she fills her no-frills shopping list.
Homeschool Victory
- By Wall Street Journal
- Published 08/15/2008
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Hold on to your hats. Common sense and constitutionalism have prevailed in the California judiciary. Last week, the Second District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles declared that parents who homeschool don't need teaching credentials in order to educate their own children.
An education in pure silliness
- By Los Angeles Times
- Published 08/9/2008
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After nearly 20 years of working as a television writer, I made a radical life decision: to teach English at a Los Angeles public high school. I felt it was time for me to make a difference, to share my passion for language and literature with the next generation. Sure, I knew that the pay would be abysmal and that the teaching conditions in gang-infested, impoverished communities might be tough.
Parents may home-school children without teaching credential, California court says
- By Los Angeles Times
- Published 08/9/2008
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Gov. Schwarzenegger praises the reversal by the 2nd District Court of Appeal as a victory for students and parental rights.
By Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
Parents may legally home-school their children in California even if they lack a teaching credential, a state appellate court ruled Friday. The decision is a reversal of the court's earlier position, which effectively prohibited most home schooling and sparked fear throughout the state's estimated 166,000 home-schoolers.
By Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
Parents may legally home-school their children in California even if they lack a teaching credential, a state appellate court ruled Friday. The decision is a reversal of the court's earlier position, which effectively prohibited most home schooling and sparked fear throughout the state's estimated 166,000 home-schoolers.
N.C. homeschool enrollment up 4%
- By News & Observer North Carolina
- Published 08/9/2008
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RALEIGH — Home-school enrollment increased by about 4 percent this past school year, according to figures released today by the state Division of Non-Public Education.
Homeschooling OK – even in California
- By WorldNet Daily
- Published 08/9/2008
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Reversed: Ruling that parents had no right to teach children
An appeals court in California has ruled that state law does permit homeschooling "as a species of private school education" but that statutory permission for parents to teach their own children could be "overridden in order to protect the safety of a child who has been declared dependent."
An appeals court in California has ruled that state law does permit homeschooling "as a species of private school education" but that statutory permission for parents to teach their own children could be "overridden in order to protect the safety of a child who has been declared dependent."
Judge dismisses home-schooling credentials case
- By Los Angeles Times
- Published 07/11/2008
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A controversial legal ruling that outlawed most forms of home schooling in California will face greater scrutiny because the underlying family court case was dismissed earlier this week.
Homeschool is a constitutional right for parents
- By San Francisco Chronicle
- Published 06/23/2008
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Damien M. Schiff
Can California force parents to send their children outside the home for their education, regardless of the quality of instruction they receive at home? Today, the California Court of Appeal in Los Angeles will hear arguments in a case raising this issue - the constitutional rights of parents to direct the education of their children.
Can California force parents to send their children outside the home for their education, regardless of the quality of instruction they receive at home? Today, the California Court of Appeal in Los Angeles will hear arguments in a case raising this issue - the constitutional rights of parents to direct the education of their children.
In defense of home schooling
- By Los Angeles Times
- Published 06/23/2008
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By Gale Holland
Advocates urged a state appellate court Monday to overturn a decision that severely restricted the ability of California parents to educate their children at home, saying family-based schooling works for hundreds of thousands of children.
Advocates urged a state appellate court Monday to overturn a decision that severely restricted the ability of California parents to educate their children at home, saying family-based schooling works for hundreds of thousands of children.
Mother chooses home schooling over special education for her two autistic children.
- By Richmond Times-Dispatch
- Published 06/20/2008
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Ashley Williams loves selling Girl Scout cookies, playing softball, watching NASCAR -- No. 17, Matt Kenseth, is her favorite -- and is prone to fits of giggling. In many ways, she's a typical 9-year-old.
Subway sandwich contest: Homeschoolers not wanted
- By WorldNet Daily
- Published 05/24/2008
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Subway, the sandwich restaurant, wants to hear your child's story – unless he or she is homeschooled. The national chain's "Every Sandwich Tells a Story Contest" offers prizes and a chance to be published on the Subway website and in Scholastic's "Parent & Child" magazine but specifically excludes homeschoolers:
Governor, lawmakers speak up for Calif. home schoolers
- By San Diego Union-Tribune
- Published 05/20/2008
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Attorney General Jerry Brown and 19 members of Congress are supporting families that choose to home-school in a challenge to a state appeals court ruling.
Stunned: Parents losing custody for homeschooling kids
- By WorldNet Daily
- Published 05/12/2008
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'Law seen as logical step in carving up family rights'
A German couple already being threatened with jail time because they have been homeschooling their children say their nation has taken a turn for the worse, with a new federal law that gives family courts the authority to take custody of children "as soon as there is a suspicion of child abuse," which is how that nation's courts have defined homeschooling.
A German couple already being threatened with jail time because they have been homeschooling their children say their nation has taken a turn for the worse, with a new federal law that gives family courts the authority to take custody of children "as soon as there is a suspicion of child abuse," which is how that nation's courts have defined homeschooling.
