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 [...]
A four-and-a-half star article.
Home-school students acting up with theater group, 7 November 2007, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minnesota
A group of home-school students performed “The Diary of Anne Frank” there under the direction of their “tutor,” a well-known youth theater director from Roseville who used to teach her own kids at home. These days, Carla [...]
What you need to know this week, 6 November 2007, Sacramento Bee, Sacramento, California
The council Monday will consider changing the city’s daytime curfew regulations to allow students absent from school without a valid excuse to be cited anywhere they are found.
Folsom Cordova Unified School District officials requested the change to bring Rancho Cordova’s regulations in [...]
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While I was on vacation, a small journalistic brouhaha centering on homeschooling erupted near Lansing, Michigan. A reporter for the Lansing State Journal published a column on the response of a teacher to finding out that there was no recourse by school officials to keep a child in school after the parents withdrew the [...]
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Columbus- The Ohio Supreme Court gave a nod to home schools in a ruling released Wednesday that said a student’s school need not be recognized or accredited by Ohio for purposes of child support collection. By law, a parent must continue paying support for a child over age 18 if that child is still enrolled [...]
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