Homeschoolers compete in a lot of different kinds of contests:
From the Lincoln County Record, Pioche, NV – Established September 12, 1870
Panaca’s Cookie Crumb Trail Contest
By Angela Musser
The Christmas Tree Ornament Contest for Panaca’s Town Tree is now open to public and home school students.
Argus Leader – Sioux Falls, SD
Home-school team wins annual quiz bowl
For the [...]
State council approves plan for home-school grads to get student aid The Virginian-Pilot
By Denise Watson Batts
The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia approved new criteria Tuesday that will allow home-schooled graduates to qualify for state financial aid that they were previously barred from receiving.
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As an Illinois homeschooler, this headline below published in the Fox Valley Villages Sun definitely got my attention as a very strange possibility. Homeschoolers are independent of the public school system, and school district policies shouldn’t have anything to do with a homeschooler’s graduation.
Policy revisions could hurt home-schoolers
Proposed changes could make it impossible for them [...]
A trio of bills seem to be successfully working their way through the WA legislature.
WA Bill targets public info about Wash. homeschoolers Seattle Post-Intelligencer March 23, 2009
By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP
SEATTLE — Parents who homeschool their children have asked Washington
lawmakers to exempt their registration forms from state public
disclosure laws. The Legislature appears poised to grant their [...]
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Jonathan Krohn is a 13 year old homeschooler who has written a book called: Define Conservatism
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There’s an interesting letter to the editor of the Coshocton Tribune in Ohio, responding to the misreprentation of a virtual, or e-school, as homeschooling, and clearly explaining the differences.
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Homeschooler Going Mainstream
An AP piece about the race for South Carolina’s State Superintendent of Education was picked up by a number of outlets.
From Education Week (requires registration):
Homeschooling Parent Enters S.C. Schools Chief Race
Columbia, S.C.
A small business owner who home-schools her children said Thursday she’s running to be South Carolina’s education superintendent.
Elizabeth Moffly of Awendaw is entering [...]
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