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.
Some people think that should change.
Sen. Fred Dyson, R-Eagle River, would like it if home-schooling families could use their state allotments to buy religious textbooks, software and other curriculum — as long as it’s academically meaty.
“But that will be a spirited discussion,” Dyson said, in an interview after raising the issue with the state Board of Education.
I’ll undoubtedly have more to say about this article in the near future, but today I’m more concerned about another challenge here in Alaska, which hit our smallish local paper this morning but will probably be in the larger statewide paper within a day or two. It’s a continuation of the situation that started developing several weeks ago, in which certain parties are pushing for testing and accountability of Alaska’s homeschooled children, and they don’t seem to be distinguishing between the public school enrollees and the bona fide homeschoolers. Much more on that later today.
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