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		<title>IL School Authorities Give Credit Where Credit is Due</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Naperville area homeschoolers negotiated with school authorities, and common sense prevailed.  A potential district policy revision demanding that a “district-approved external accrediting agency” certified any homeschool credits and grades transferred onto a public high school transcript was dropped.
The Naperville Sun reports this news from Indian Prairie School District 204&#8217;s school board meeting:
D204 compromises on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Home schooling is a well-known and established means of education&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That quote in the header was from a  Cook County (Chicago) Circuit Court summary judgment in favor of the Chicago Virtual Charter School (CVCS).   Why were they talking about homeschooling in a virtual school judgment?  This week, the Chicago Teachers Union lawsuit claiming Chicago Public School/IL State Board of Education authorization illegalities was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Educational Rigor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t have anything to do with a homeschooler&#8217;s graduation.
Policy revisions could hurt home-schoolers
Proposed changes could make it impossible for them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wishing for 3 year olds</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Illinois, Kwame Raoul, Presidential candidate Senator Obama&#8217;s replacement as State Senator, has once again introduced a bill to lower the compulsory attendance age. Even as there is some controversy in Illinois as to whether this is a homeschooling issue to contend with, Senator Raoul&#8217;s bill to lower the compulsory attendance age 2 years ago [...]]]></description>
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