The Garner Area Homeschoolers are still at work trying to save their Southeast Regional Library in Garner, NC. They have produced a number of videos to help get the word out:
Interested in a bit edgier version of the protest video?
View more videos on the Garner Area Homeschoolers Facebook Page
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According to the Quad City Times the compromise that divvies up money for Iowa’s public school Home School Assistance Programs works out well for all involved:
An amendment attached to Senate File 2288 narrows some of the uses of taxpayer dollars for home-school assistance programs, while providing for certain clerical and office support, resource materials such [...]
A report on the Salt Lake Tribune’s website tells us that Sen. Mark Madsen (R) failed for the last three years to move a bill forward to allow homeschoolers to participate in sports because the bill had “too many loopholes for failing students to participate in sports and wouldn’t have held home-schooled students to the [...]
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The State Press, an independent daily serving Arizona State University, reports news for homeschoolers thinking about higher education at in Arizona:
Without a guidance counselor or advisor to assist them, college-bound home-schooled students rely heavily on personal research for scholarship information.
A new measure in the Arizona Legislature is attempting to lend those students a helping hand.
Senate [...]
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I had missed this story from back in January. It comes from Stories From School, Practice meets Policy
Several years ago my principal and I spent a lunch hour on a home visit to see one of my students. He had been absent for a week, after telling us that he was going to be homeschooled.
This [...]
