Legal Challenges

California Court Reverses Itself

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Parents have the right to home school, state court says Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer Friday, August 8, 2008 sfgate_get_fprefs(); (08-08) 10:49 PDT LOS ANGELES - — A state appeals court reversed itself today and ruled that parents in California have the right to home school their children even if they lack a teaching...
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Guest Editorial: Appalling Event in Germany

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by Pat Montgomery Melissa Busekros is a fifteen-year-old girl, the oldest of six children in the Busekros family. She lives in Erlangen, Germany. Melissa attended the Christian Ernst High Gymnasium until the summer of 2004 when she was told that she would have to repeat the grade because she was failing in Latin and...
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History Lesson

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The HEM Networking discussion list has always been known for a no-nonsense approach to the most timely and important homeschooling issues. Founded in 1999 and currently listing almost 1,000 members, the list includes many veteran and pioneer homeschoolers who enjoy sharing their intimate knowledge of the history, the people, and the significant events which...
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Perspective on a National Organization

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HEM’s Support Group News, October Interesting commentary in this month’s Support Group Newsletter, edited by Mary Nix, in an interview with two homeschool leaders in Virginia, Shay Seaborne and Amy Wilson: Although two HSLDA attorneys agreed that the illegal regulation had a “chilling” effect on those who aren’t represented by counsel, HSLDA was content...
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Alaska Testing Reply

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Frontiersman.com A good letter to the editor from homeschooling mom Kristen Seine. She starts out with a question: It seems like such a reasonable request. Why shouldn’t the state mandate testing for all children, both public and home-schooled? Click on the link above to read her good answer to the question raised.
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Testing

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A letter I sent today to The Frontiersman newspaper, published in Wasilla, Alaska: The October 4 edition of the Frontiersman published an opinion piece by retired public school teacher Carol Lowery, headlined: “Testing of home-schoolers the right thing to do.” The “right” thing to do? Who defines what is right and what is wrong...
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Alaska: Home-schoolers seek religious texts

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Anchorage Daily News I’ve already written to the author of this article, sending links to several informative sites and explaining that the first eight words of her article comprise an oxymoron: Home-school students enrolled in Alaska correspondence programs get state money to help pay for their supplies but can’t spend it on religious materials....
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Why do state Departments of Education and government want to encroach on homeschooling issues?

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HEM September-October 2005 – Selected Content In the second part of an interview with Deborah Stevenson of the National Home Education Legal Defense (NHELD) about the threats facing homeschooling parents, Judy Aron asks, “Why do state Departments of Education and government want to encroach on homeschooling issues?” Deborah Stevenson starts her long reply with...
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Alaskan Homeschoolers Speak Out

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Alaska: Anchorage Daily News letters Last week, in a post titled Alaska’s Law Challenged, I shared the letter I’d written to our state’s largest newspaper in response to a letter calling for changing Alaska’s homeschooling law. I was pleased and surprised earlier this week to receive a nice email note from Alaska’s Lieutenant Governor,...
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