Parents have the right to home school, state court says
Friday, August 8, 2008
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(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 credential.
The Second District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles had ruled Feb. 28 that the state’s compulsory education law requires parents to send their children to a full-time public or private school or have them taught by credentialed tutors at home. The ruling caused an uproar among home-schooling advocates and could have made truants out of an estimated 166,000 children in California who are taught at home by their parents.
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