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Item(s) found: 23
For Home Students, Chance to Join the Club in Public School
Date CapturedThursday July 05 2007, 9:04 AM
Washington Post reports, "Say you're a home-schooled student, but you want to learn about photography, and think the best way to learn, barring lessons on dad's bulky Polaroid, is working on the high school yearbook. Impossible, right? Home-schoolers in high school clubs?"
Judge warns of child-abusing homeschoolers
Date CapturedSunday March 11 2007, 7:29 AM
Lil Ole Lady reports, "A Superior Court judge in New Jersey says homeschooling is just about the same as deliberate child abuse. In fact, he says, he just might name a school district in his state as a defendant in a current court dispute, citing the district’s 'shocking' failure to monitor and test all students – including homeschoolers."
New York City Department of Education Attendance Services
Date CapturedMonday March 05 2007, 9:17 PM
The Office of Attendance is responsible for the oversight of attendance policies, procedures and programs for New York City public school students. This includes the development and implementation of attendance guidelines and procedures, provision of on-going technical assistance and support and collaboration with outside agencies and organizations on attendance-related issues. The office also serves as a resource to the community and the public-at-large. In addition, the office is responsible for: Employment Certification; Attendance Improvement and Dropout Prevention (AIDP) Programs; Truancy Prevention Programs (TRACK, PACT); and home schooling.
Move to limit New Hampshire dropouts returns: It draws opposition from home-schoolers
Date CapturedFriday February 23 2007, 7:58 AM
Concord Monitor reports, "After failing to pass the House last year, a proposal to raise the high school attendance age to 18 has returned, along with opponents. A series of state officials and prominent Democratic lawmakers - including Gov. John Lynch, who has made the proposal one of his priorities - made the case for the measure yesterday. 'Instead of throwing up our hands and saying we can't meet their needs, we finally acknowledge that not only can we do it, we must do it,' said Sen. Iris Estabrook, the bill's sponsor and a Durham Democrat. 'If we don't, we can keep on building prisons, keep on growing the substance abuse problem and keep on lamenting the cycle of poverty.'"
Mississippi education issues lost in funding battles
Date CapturedSunday January 07 2007, 7:25 AM
Clarion-Ledger reports, "The biggest untouchable issue is school consolidation. Mississippi clearly doesn't need 151 school districts. But consolidation steps on school administrators' turf. It makes communities confront issues of community and racial groupings. It could even, oh horror, affect a basketball or football team. Lawmakers won't touch it."
Trends in the Use of School Choice: 1993 to 2003
Date CapturedTuesday November 28 2006, 10:27 AM
"This NCES report uses data from the National Household Surveys Program (NHES) to present trends that focus on the use of and users of public schools (assigned and chosen), private schools (church- and non church-related), and homeschoolers between 1993 and 2003. The percentage of students enrolled in their assigned public school decreased from 80 percent to 74 percent between 1993 and 2003, while this decrease was nearly offset by an increase in chosen public school enrollment from 11 to 15 percent between 1993 and 2003. During this same time period, enrollment in church-related private schools remained stable at 8 percent and enrollment in non church-related private schools increased from 1.6 to 2.4 percent. This report also presents data on parental perceptions of public school choice availability and associations between the public and private school types children were enrolled in and parental satisfaction with and involvement in the schools. About one-half of all students have parents who reported that public school choice was available in their community, with one-quarter of students attending assigned public schools having parents who considered enrolling them in a school other than the one they were currently attending, while 17 percent of all students and 27 percent of Black students attended a school other than their parent’s first-choice school. Generally, there were no parental involvement differences detected between students enrolled in assigned and chosen public schools. Parents of students in private schools reported more direct involvement in their children’s schools than parents of students enrolled in other types of schools."
Massachusetts home-school policy adopted: Students can take extracurricular sports, activities
Date CapturedFriday November 24 2006, 5:23 PM
Norton Mirror reports, "Home-schooled students wishing to participate in teams or co-curricular activities must give 90 days prior notice to the school systems and obtain signed permission from their parent or guardian, building principal and the director of the team or club they are interested in. Home-schooled students participating in team sports must abide by the guidelines of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association and provide proper physician notes and proof of insurance. They are subject to the disciplinary rules and regulations set forth by the MIAA, as well as the newly instituted Norton athletic user fees. School Committee Vice Chairman Kevin O'Neil suggested home-schooled students be issued a student identification card once all requirements have been completed. The School Committee agreed."
Make youth sports community-based
Date CapturedMonday October 30 2006, 8:44 AM
Times Union contributor JOHN H. MUNSON, New York Home Educators' Network, in a letter to the editor writes "The real solution isn't to allow home-schoolers on public school teams; it's to replace interscholastic sports with community-based sports."
Children with, without special needs grow at the Stepping Stones Learning Center
Date CapturedSaturday October 21 2006, 8:05 AM
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle guess essayist Mariellen Cupini, CEO, Stepping Stones Learning Center writes, "Each class is staffed by a core team of three: state-certified special education and regular education teachers and a classroom assistant. In addition, during the class, other teachers/therapists assist. These include speech, occupational, physical and music therapists, as well as social workers. While these professionals target the children who receive these services, the entire class benefits.."
New York Home-schoolers want to play too
Date CapturedSunday October 08 2006, 7:21 PM
Times Union reports, "The New York State Public High School Athletic Association, which sets policy for high school sports -- and which, despite its name, is a private entity -- has a long-standing rule prohibiting home-schoolers from participating in interscholastic sports."
Regulations put resolve to the test: Home-schooled New Yorkers need GED
Date CapturedSunday October 08 2006, 8:14 AM
Times Union reports, "All athletes must be declared eligible by the NCAA Clearinghouse. Living in New York doesn't make it any easier for home-schoolers. New York is the only state that does not accept a home-school diploma as proof of graduation. Because there is no other way to certify a substantial equivalent of a four-year high school diploma, home-schoolers are required to take and pass the General Education Development test in order to meet the NCAA's graduation requirement."
Blacks take education into their own hands: Once dominated by whites, homeschooling appeals to more African Americans
Date CapturedMonday September 25 2006, 1:06 PM
San Francisco Chronicle reports, "The Marshalls, who had both worked as teachers' aides, feared public school would contradict their Christian beliefs, and they wanted to avoid having their sons labeled as violent or hyperactive or seeing them pressured by peers to drink, do drugs and have sex. A desire for more rigorous academics and greater emphasis on black history also has led black families into homeschooling, educators say."
Turn city schools into magnets
Date CapturedSunday September 17 2006, 12:12 PM
The York Daily contributor and home-schooling parent NANCY SNYDER writes, "There was a time when I taught my children everything they knew. Now, when I can't find a solution to a problem, I go to my children. So I recently asked them, 'What can be done for our city schools?' Noah responded quickly, 'Set up a cooperative system throughout the county. Turn the city schools into magnet schools that will attract students from middle-class families throughout the county. Bus city students who aren't in the magnet schools to nearby suburban schools.'"
Regional office of Illinois education says its has a right to check on homeschool students
Date CapturedSunday September 17 2006, 11:57 AM
The Southern reports, "'According to the Regional Office of Education, they do have the right to check on home-schooling parents,' Garnati [Williamson County State's Attorney] said. A Marion resident was recently sentenced to 48 hours in the Williamson County Jail after she was convicted of allowing her child to remain truant from school. She claimed she was home-schooling her child, but Williamson County Judge Ron Eckiss ruled that she was not home-schooling and was rather allowing her child to remain truant from school."
Kentucky home educators required to teach rigid curriculum
Date CapturedThursday September 14 2006, 8:41 AM
Pioneer News reports, "Kentucky law recognizes home schools as private institutions. The laws that apply to state private schools apply to home schools as well."
Stanford opens high school for gifted students
Date CapturedMonday August 14 2006, 8:29 AM
San Francisco Chronicle reports on US first online program for ultra-smart, "The new online high school comes as advocates of gifted education say the federal No Child Left Behind Act has unintentionally hurt gifted students in the public schools. They say that because teachers face pressure to make all students proficient, they don't challenge the successful ones who could do more."
Parents delivering quality education
Date CapturedMonday June 26 2006, 4:15 AM
Home school for elite
Date CapturedMonday June 05 2006, 10:24 AM
Home Schooling Keeps Students, Parents Closer: A Fast-Growing Education Trend
Date CapturedSunday June 04 2006, 8:44 AM
Southern Baptists Bypassing Public Schools
Date CapturedSaturday May 27 2006, 8:29 PM
Nevada children get homegrown education
Date CapturedTuesday May 02 2006, 6:59 AM
South Carolina state group advocates leaving public schools
Date CapturedTuesday April 25 2006, 9:32 PM
Kansas education system to include virtual schools
Date CapturedTuesday January 24 2006, 8:21 AM



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