Valerie on December 5th, 2007

Susan Ryan (usually at Corn and Oil) reports at Illinois Review on an article explaining that picking up all kids outside during the day is justified.
Daytime Freedom endangered in Lincoln
The cities and towns are doing their job for them. The schools have the names, addresses and phone numbers of truant students, but the city will [...]

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They plan a vote on this ordinance this coming Monday, December 3rd.
From the Lincoln Courier

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Valerie on November 28th, 2007

Henry Cate posted a link to a report on the Edwards family homeschooling on the campaign train. Readers at Henry’s blog, Why Homeschool, discussed the style of the Edwards family’s homeschooling.
Elizabeth Edwards on homeschooling
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It’s bound to get me in trouble (no guts, no glory), but the position of parents of unenrolled children asking for public school services reminds me of the old Bill Cosby routine where he talks about women saying to their significant others during romantic interludes, “Come here, c’mere, c’mere, c’mere. No, go away, go [...]

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Valerie on November 23rd, 2007

A few years ago, many news sites reported on the cooked books of the “Texas Miracle” from the current President Bush’s home state, a “miracle” that was the bedrock for the No Child Left Behind legislation. The mis-recording by some schools of the reportable reasons for young Texans leaving school hid the decline in [...]

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