Home-Schoolers, Under New Scrutiny, Pushing Back
Home-schoolers across the country have put their organizational skills and political clout to heavy use in recent weeks as lawmakers in a number of states seek to more closely regulate the families who opt to teach their own children.
In Nebraska, more than 1,000 home school supporters turned out at the state capitol in Lincoln late last month to fight a measure that would place a number of restrictions on home-schoolers.
That week in Tennessee, hundreds of home school advocates descended on a public hearing at the statehouse in Nashville to protest proposed legislation there that would require home school students to take the same state exams...
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Correction:
An earlier version of this story should have said that home-schoolers in Wisconsin oppose legislation to more closely regulate virtual charter schools. Larry Kaseman, the executive director of the Wisconsin Parents Association, a statewide home-schooling group, said the legislation would undermine home-schoolers’ freedom to choose curricula, to decide which tests to give, and to operate with little to no interference from government officials.
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