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, [...]
Free Online High School Courses for Students Displaced by Hurricane Katrina!
Another alternative for high school students displaced by Hurricane Katrina is homeschooling, which is legal in every state. Â These free online classes and curriculum materials will help you design a high school homeschooling curriculum quickly, easily, and inexpensively.
Volunteers in Homeschoolers of Maine have collected [...]
Continue reading about Free Online High School Courses for Students Displaced by Hurricane Katrina!
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 [...]
