News and Commentary: Alaskan strings ensnarl home educating families

HEM News & Commentary blogger Valerie Moon reports on a situation in Alaska that should help homeschoolers in other states understand why so many have voiced serious concerns about the direction in which cyber and charter schools are pushing families:

The author of the article went on to report that the state’s assistant attorney general, “confirmed EED’s interpretive broadening of the law, labeling private homes as public schools . . . ‘it applies to public schooling however delivered.’”

HEM’s Home Education & Other Stuff blogger, Daryl Cobranchi, also points to the situation in Alaska as a red flag in his post titled “Here Come the Strings,” noting: “So home educating families are now officially adjuncts of the g-school system. It should surprise no one that the edu-crats are pushing this idea. It’s been pretty obvious for a long time that that was the goal of their ‘support’ for home education.”

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