AG Holder trying to deport German family that came to the U.S. to homeschool
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Give me your tired, your poor … but not your homeschooled. The government of the United States – land of the free, home of the brave, the world’s melting pot – is attempting to...
View ArticlePhiladelphia school district attempts to monitor families who homeschool...
PHILADELPHIA – There are few school districts in the U.S. that are more dysfunctional than the Philadelphia school system. Between its massive budget deficits and chronic levels of student failure, The...
View ArticleHomeschool parents worried that Common Core tests will penalize their children
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Homeschool families are taking a closer look at the new national Common Core standards, and they don’t like what they see. In a recent Fox News article, homeschooling parents echoed...
View ArticleProposed Ohio homeschool law would require background checks on parents
COLUMBUS, Ohio – An Ohio senator wants the state to investigate parents who decide to homeschool their children. This comes after the death of a Theodore “Teddy” Foltz-Tedesco, who was brought to Akron...
View ArticleCatholic homeschooling innovates with ‘hybrid,’ classical programs
MANASSAS, Va. – Television host Colleen Carroll Campbell reports on the growth of Catholic homeschooling and a “hybrid” homeschool program that brings Catholic students together in a “unique...
View ArticleGerman homeschooling Romeike family given ‘indefinite deferred status’
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday the Supreme Court of the United States declined to hear the case of a German family seeking asylum in the United States because of persecution they endured in Germany...
View ArticleReview: ‘Building the Machine’ is a Common Core movie parents can’t afford to...
ELLICOTT CITY, Md. – I’m giving the new Common Core documentary Building the Machine five out of five stars, and not just because I’m in it — or rather a news clip of me being carried out of a public...
View ArticleAnti-Common Core forces co-author blunt letter to Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin
OKLAHOMA CITY – Opponents of the Common Core experiment are putting Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin on the hot seat. Today, a collection of anti-Common Core groups and activists are releasing a public letter...
View ArticleParents concerned students’ sensitive school data an open book
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Students at many public schools are having personal data collected, stored and distributed to third parties without their parents’ knowledge. “I had a conversation with my high...
View ArticleHome school parents win as VA district drops policy requiring ‘statement...
GOOCHLAND, Va. – A Virginia school board is doing away with a policy that required prospective home schooled students to justify their religious beliefs after a flurry of complaints from parents and...
View ArticleVirginia gives homeschoolers protection from federal data collection
RICHMOND, Va. – Homeschoolers in Virginia are pleased a widely supported privacy measure designed to prevent the sharing of personal information passed with bipartisan support. Senate Bill 1383,...
View ArticleHome school debate team banned from participating in state competitions
SANTA FE, N.M. – The New Mexico Speech and Debate Association isn’t interested in debating with homeschoolers. The association’s leadership made that painfully clear to the Jemez Mountain Home School...
View ArticleNo, Ted Cruz doesn’t want federal regulation of home schooling
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Contrary to what some bloggers (many of whom support Donald Trump’s presidential campaign) and the Internet rumor mill have been saying, Sen. Ted Cruz does not support federal...
View ArticleHome school mother sues NYC schools after investigation for ‘educational...
NEW YORK – New York City mother Tanya Acevedo is suing the city school district over the bumbling bureaucracy that oversees homeschooled students. Acevedo, who removed her son from public school to...
View ArticleCuba jails homeschooling pastor, sentences wife to house arrest for a year
GUANTANAMO, Cuba – A Cuban judge sentenced a pastor to prison and his wife to house arrest this week for removing their children from the socialist government school system to teach them at home....
View ArticleAG Holder trying to deport German family that came to the U.S. to homeschool
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Give me your tired, your poor … but not your homeschooled. The government of the United States – land of the free, home of the brave, the world’s melting pot – is attempting to...
View ArticlePhiladelphia school district attempts to monitor families who homeschool...
PHILADELPHIA – There are few school districts in the U.S. that are more dysfunctional than the Philadelphia school system. Between its massive budget deficits and chronic levels of student failure, The...
View ArticleHomeschool parents worried that Common Core tests will penalize their children
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Homeschool families are taking a closer look at the new national Common Core standards, and they don’t like what they see. In a recent Fox News article, homeschooling parents echoed...
View ArticleProposed Ohio homeschool law would require background checks on parents
COLUMBUS, Ohio – An Ohio senator wants the state to investigate parents who decide to homeschool their children. This comes after the death of a Theodore “Teddy” Foltz-Tedesco, who was brought to Akron...
View ArticleCatholic homeschooling innovates with ‘hybrid,’ classical programs
MANASSAS, Va. – Television host Colleen Carroll Campbell reports on the growth of Catholic homeschooling and a “hybrid” homeschool program that brings Catholic students together in a “unique...
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