Backdoor Dealings: A proposed bill that would get DCF off the back of homeschooling parents is caught in a political war between competing lawmakers, 2 April 2008, Hartford Advocate, Hartford, Connecticut
There’s a bait-and-switch scam going on in the General Assembly where the homeschooling bill 162 is concerned.
Originally proposed by Rep. Arthur O’Neill, it’s supposed [...]
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The right to home school, 16 March 2008, Danbury News Times, Danbury, Connecticut
Deborah Stevenson, an education attorney who represents Hughes, said her family is one of more than 40 in the past year who found DCF investigators at their doorsteps statewide after removing children from their local district to be home schooled.
School districts often notify [...]
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Smoothing A Way Out Of School, 18 February 2008, Hartford Courant, Hartford, Connecticut
Home-schooling advocates will be watching with interest when legislators hold a public hearing Tuesday on a bill that would change the way parents withdraw their children from public school.
The proposed law would require parents to send a certified letter informing their local school [...]
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An update on the situation in Connecticut concerning the homeschooling mom whose husband was militarily deployed when the problems began:
Hoo Ya! A Victory For A Military Homeschool Family in CT!, 6 July 2007, Consent of the Governed
The DCF Commissioner, Susan Hamilton, send a certified letter to Isabelle Hall-Gustafsen, whose husband had [...]
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Connecticut-On being a “self-learner”
Woodbury teen (un) schooled in ways of the world REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN
BY MATT JOHNSON
“I really got a sense of being a self-learner,” he said. “When you’re unschooled, you never stop learning just because you leave the classroom. I know how to seek the information that I want, and that’s huge in college.”
But while he was able to [...]
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