Posts Tagged ‘ California homeschooling ’

Classroom design is the subject du jour?

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A Nov. 11th L.A. Times article for L.A. at Home, which seems to focus on architecture and design for southern California homeowners, carried the cutsy title, “For home-school parents, classroom design is the subject du jour.” The first part of the article does, in fact, focus on parents with a severe yearning to replicate...
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Minority Homeschool Numbers

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From The Louisiana Weekly article Homeschooling Numbers Rise in Minorities’ Households: “As California’s public schools buckle under the weight of the state’s catastrophic budget problems, more and more parents … are taking education into their own hands. Once considered the domain of white evangelical Christians, who were concerned that their children were not getting...
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Review-’WRITE THESE LAWS ON YOUR CHILDREN’

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WRITE THESE LAWS ON YOUR CHILDREN: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling By Robert Kunzman The book was released in August of 2009 and published by Beacon Press of Boston. A Review by Susan Ryan, Illinois Homeschooler In one of Robert Kunzman’s interviews with six “strongly conservative” Christian homeschooling families, a California homeschooling...
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Homeschoolers “Take Profound Shift in Demographics”….again

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Who are and where are homeschoolers? Who should care? New homeschoolers would likely want to find a support network, along with encouragement from other homeschoolers. Families looking at homeschooling as a way out of the public or private school building would also be looking for state and local resources. Homeschoolers tend to know the...
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Homeschooling is “all the rage” in junior tennis

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Move to Ojai results in net gain for Pecor Ventura County Star  April 22, 2009 By Rhiannon Potkey Along with improving his tennis, Pecor wanted to be challenged academically when he arrived in Ojai. He decided to skip the eighth grade and enroll at Nordhoff High as a freshman. The honor student goes to...
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CHN synopsis and links on California court decision

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Court Ruling: California statutes permit homeschooling! CHN would like to thank Jerry Salcido and his team of attorneys at Baker & McKenzie LLP for the outstanding job they performed in representing the members of California Homeschool Network. They worked for months with the attorneys from HSC and CHEA, to defend our right to continue...
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California decision rendered … in favor of homeschooling

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Page 5: In this dependency case, we consider the legality of, and restraints upon, home schooling in California.1 We will conclude that: (1) California statutes permit home schooling as a species of private school education; and (2) the statutory permission to home school may constitutionally be overridden in order to protect the safety of...
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California court jurisdiction dismissed concerning ‘in re Rachel L.’

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Case that led to Calif. home school ban dismissed, 12 July 2008, San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego, California I can’t quote the article because it’s from the Associated Press, and they’re very fussy (and therefore, no fair use = no link).  I guess that the A.P. didn’t know that there was no outright ban in the first...
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S. Res. 572 and H. Res. 1076 — Congressional pressure on the California appellate court

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Search at Thomas, if interested.  At this point, any information about these resolutions seems to be of the order of “fyi.”  NewsComm is a day late and a dollar short in reporting this, but the NewsComm staff (me, 2 cats and the granddog) just didn’t catch it at the time.  Hat tip to Mary, whose...
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California court to re-hear case

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Home-schooling in court, 23 June 2008, San Jose Mercury News, San Jose, California The 2nd District Court of Appeal will hear arguments in a legal fight over whether parents who home-school their children must have teaching credentials. The same appeals court earlier this year sent shock waves through the nation’s home-schooling movement, finding that...
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