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Homeschool Meeting Draws Sparse Crowd, Makes Small Gains

Tampa Bay

by Linnea Brown

August 15, 2008

BROOKSVILLE - Local parents who homeschool their children are in no hurry to send their children back to Hernando County public schools. That much became clear after Thursday's meeting at the school district, hosted by Superintendent Wayne Alexander.

One by one, nearly a dozen of the parents stood behind a podium and told a panel of district experts why they initially pulled their children out of local public schools. According to finance director Deborah Bruggink, each child pulls in approximately $3,998 in state funding. If all homeschooled students enrolled in district schools, that could add as much as $3.34 million to the district's budget.

A Homeschooling Win in California

Time Magazine

by Kristin Kloberdanz

August 13, 2008

In a stunning reversal of its own ruling, a California court says it's O.K. for uncredentialed parents to homeschool their kids. But regulatory questions remain

"[This ruling] gives us a lot more confidence and a lot more sense of freedom," says Pam Sorooshian, an uncredentialed teacher of her three daughters in Las Alamitas, Calif. "We can get back to educating our children and not be distracted."

Home schooling grows by 80 percent in state in past decade

TCPalm

by Kelly Tyko

August 11, 2008

Sara Garman doesn't have to worry about a school dress code or the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. As one of the 2,000-plus students on the Treasure Coast who is home-schooled.

When the upcoming school year begins Aug. 18 for Treasure Coast public schools, there likely will be more home-schooled students than ever before and the number of home-schooled students is expected to continue to rise. For the 2007-08 school year, the Florida Department of Education estimated 56,650 students were home schooled, compared with 31,440 students in 1997-98 - an 80 percent increase.

State keeps 5 kids over parents' homeschooling

World Net Daily

August 08, 2008

Five children who were taken into state custody by police in January will remain in government custody because their parents provide homeschool educations.

The six children had been taken by police in a surprise raid on the family's home in January. The HSLDA report said officers from the government's youth welfare services and police surrounded the family's home while the father was visiting his wife in a hospital, where she had gone with pregnancy complications.

ACLJ Pleased California Appeals Court Clears the Way for Homeschooling

Market Watch

August 08, 2008

The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), which focuses on constitutional law, said today it is pleased a California appeals court overturned a previous decision and cleared the way for parents to homeschool their children.

The ACLJ filed a friend-of-the-court brief in May urging the appeals court to protect the right to homeschool and argued that the right of parents to homeschool their children is derived from both the Free Speech and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment.

Parents may home-school children without teaching credential, California court says

Los Angeles Times

by Seema Mehta

August 08, 2008

Gov. Schwarzenegger praises the reversal by the 2nd District Court of Appeal as a victory for students and parental rights.

Parents may legally home-school their children in California even if they lack a teaching credential, a state appellate court ruled today.

Court OKs home schooling in state

San Jose Mercury News (CA)

August 08, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO - A California appeals court says parents without teaching credentials may home school their children.

The state appeals court on Friday reversed its early ruling barring noncredentialed home schools after dozens of teaching organizations defended the growing practice.

Homeschooling gets green light from court

World Net Daily (CA)

by Bob Unruh

August 08, 2008

An appeals court in California has ruled that state law does permit homeschooling as a species of private school education but that statutory permission for parents to teach their own children could be overridden in order to protect the safety of a child.

The long-awaited case resolves many of the questions that had developed in homeschooling circles across the nation when the same court earlier found that parents had no such rights - statutorily or constitutionally - in California.

Victory for CA Home Schoolers

CBN News

August 08, 2008

A big sigh of relief for California Home School parents Friday as an appeals court ruled that parents did not have to have state teaching credentials in order to teach their children at home.

The Alliance Defense Fund told CBN News that the courts ruled in favor of their group and numerous others representing California parents in the case. All involved consider it a huge victory for homeschool parents in the Golden State and throughout the nation.

Fisher: Ex-foster kids use experience to help system

San Jose Mercury News

by Patty Fisher

July 31, 2008

Lobbyists and "special interests" have a pretty bad reputation these days. But not all lobbyists are out to get tax breaks for bigwigs. And some special-interest groups really are special.

That's why I was delighted to learn that the California Youth Connection, an organization that has been banging on doors in Sacramento for 20 years, demanding reform for the foster care system, is receiving a prestigious award today from the James Irvine Foundation. The 2008 Leadership Award recognizes Californians who have successfully tackled some of the state's most critical challenges, from poverty to health care to the environment.

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