HEM September-October 2005 – Selected Content
In the second part of an interview with Deborah Stevenson of the National Home Education Legal Defense (NHELD) about the threats facing homeschooling parents, Judy Aron asks, “Why do state Departments of Education and government want to encroach on homeschooling issues?”
Deborah Stevenson starts her long reply with this: “Follow the [...]
Frontiersman.com
The Frontiersman, a newspaper which serves Alaska’s fastest-growing community, featured an article in the Sunday edition titled “Home-school Testing Sought”:
“No other state grants more freedoms to private home schoolers than Alaska. State law allows parents to educate their children at home, free of government intervention, state testing or any other [...]
Continue reading about Alaska’s Homeschool Law Challenged, Part II
HEM blogger Daryl Cobranchi has provided the complete text of the recently revived, HSLDA-written bill for a Home School Non-Discrimination Act, so I won’t replicate it here. But this is a bill that should be killed – again – for the same reasons we’ve made very clear before. However, this time around, a section on [...]
Alaska: Anchorage Daily News letters
Last week, in a post titled Alaska’s Law Challenged, I shared the letter I’d written to our state’s largest newspaper in response to a letter calling for changing Alaska’s homeschooling law.
I was pleased and surprised earlier this week to receive a nice email note from Alaska’s Lieutenant Governor, Loren Leman, [...]
AFT – Hot Topics – Charter Schools
Interesting perspective from the American Federation of Teachers:
Today, more than 2,100 schools, serving over 500,000 students, are operating in 37 states and the District of Columbia. In many instances, the original notion of teachers as innovators and education entrepreneurs to advance learning has been transformed into a rhetoric of [...]
