Posts Tagged ‘ California homeschooling ’

California decision vacated

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Commentary at: Update RE Appellate Court Ruling – 3/27/08, The HomeSchool Association of California Appeals court will reconsider homeschooling ruling, HEM Homeschool Support and Networking California court caves, HE&OS CA Homeschool Ruling Vacated!, Ramblings, Rants & Remedies Good news: 2nd District Court of Appeal will reconsider ruling, Why Homeschool Breaking News! CA Appellate Court...
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California ruling dominates homeschooling news

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I don’t know if it is better to put all the new California reports in the comments section of the previous California entries, or to note all the reports in a fresh blog entry. On the one hand, the reports are all saying much the same thing, but they have strayed from the cause...
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Dolores Umbridge to head California education department

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via the Wild Blue Yonder blog: California welcomes new Headmaster Professor Umbridge has pledged to stamp out all forms of homeschooling and to bring California’s troubled schools up to nineteenth century standards of discipline and performance. “There will be no more nonsense”, Umbridge has decreed. posted by Valerie
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California appeal court ruling to enroll children in school

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A decision from the Second Appellate District of the California Court of Appeal popped out of nowhere to greet us all this fine Monday morning. You can read opinions from bloggers at the following links. Principled Discovery: CA and the state’s interest in secular education Bending the Twigs: Explanation of Religious Exemption Discussion in...
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Private school in California welcomes homeschooled kids

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A part of the team: Program gives home-schooled students a taste of high school, 28 December 2007, Simi Valley Acorn, Simi Valley, California Samantha Romero is a homeschooled student who plays soccer for Grace Brethren High School’s girls’ soccer team. How is that possible? Well, Samantha, a freshman forward who leads the Lancers with...
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California homeschooling family in the newspaper

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El Dorado Hills family makes it work n all 11 of them, 20 September 2007, El Dorado Hills Telegraph, Folsom, California In America, large families get their own special on The Discovery Channel, or in the Cimorelli’s case, their own profile in local papers. El Dorado Hills residents Lynne and Mike Cimorelli have 11...
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California home education program

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I understand that homeschooling and home education are both misnomers to a degree. My own kids got as much ‘schooling’ outside the house as they did at home. I understand that California has no definition in law of either homeschooling or home education — R4 schools are private schools. I also understand that for...
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California kindergarten

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Mandatory kindergarten bill proposed, San Mateo Daily Journal, San Mateo, California Two home school advocate groups are also opposing the mandatory entrance into school at 5 years old. Roy Hanson, an advocate for Private and Home Educators of California and Home School Legal Defense Association, explained in an advocacy e-mail that the bill would...
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California charter smog

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I understand the ire of Californian home educators when an outsider says that either this or that is not homeschooling when the this or that happens entirely within California’s state lines. Officially, there is no ‘homeschooling’ in California, and education providers using public money dish out whatever looks good from the educational buffet to...
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