Posts Tagged ‘ Charter Schools ’

Learning By Grace, Inc., et al. v. Idoni

Based on a short news item posted at the Home Education Magazine website in August, 2010, publisher Helen Hegener is involved in a lawsuit which was filed against homeschooling mother Heather Idoni, owner of Beloved Books, editor of The Homeschool Notebook, and manager of EasyFunSchool.com, brought against her by Mimi Rothschild, Howard Mandel, and...
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Compelled to Attend

In this first of three posts, titled Compelled to Attend, HEM’s Road Less Travelled columnist, Linda Dobson, is revisiting her first book, The Art of Education: Reclaiming Your Family, Community and Self, published by Home Education Press in 1995. An excerpt: And if colleges and universities ignore the true meaning of education and accept...
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National Charter School Watch

The National Charter School Watch discussion group (NCSW) is assessing the state of things six years after its founding by homeschooling mom Annette Jurczak in June, 2004. The group’s description explains in part: We welcome those seeking information about charter school issues in their states and nationally, as well as those sharing information about...
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Outlived Our Usefulness?

A seemingly inane announcement in a Seattle-area publication: The Edmonds Homeschool Resource Center has changed its name to Edmonds Heights K-12. The school recently changed its name from Edmonds Homeschool Resource Center to Edmonds Heights to reflect their association with the Edmonds School District. “We changed our name because we wanted to clarify our...
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No Magic Bullet

In No Magic Bullet for Education the Los Angeles Times takes a look at teacher evaluations, education reform, Race to the Top grants, standardized tests and more: The “unschooling” movement of the 1970s featured open classrooms, in which children studied what they were most interested in, when they felt ready. That was followed by...
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Wisconsin: “best friend” of home schoolers?

Rose Fernandez is the past president of the Wisconsin Coalition of Virtual School Families. She is now running for the job of WI’s State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Experienced Educator, Newcomer Battle for Wis. Post Education Week Published Online: March 30, 2009 By The Associated Press Fernandez never worked in a school. She spent...
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Public School Programs are not Homeschooling

HEM Editorial: While the public school programs have effectively served the needs of some families, it is unwise to allow the perception to grow that they are equivalent to homeschooling. The very construct of these public school programs runs counter to the ability of families to handcraft an education for their children.
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Protecting our Privacy

Peggy Daly Masternak, a long time homeschool activist recently sent along an article, Public school students’ data available to anybody from the Toledo Blade by By IGNAZIO MESSINA/ It starts out by saying that: If your children are in a public school, their names, addresses, phone numbers, and grade levels are all on a...
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How much parental involvement in a child’s education is too much?

My colleague, Mary, already blogged this report, “Clarity from Connections Academy,” but in re-reading the newspaper story from the pile in my in-box, the article still bothered me. Pointing to the clarity is important, but I find it pushy that an NEA representative virtually says that parents put one over on … whom? …,...
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The accountablity that comes with a charter school…..

The May 19, 2007 online Wisconsin Paper, the Post-Crescent, recently wrote that there are “Two charter schools up for renewal” in an article By Kathy Walsh Nufer, Post-Crescent staff writer. The article reports changes in a contract between The Wisconsin Connections Academy and the Appleton Area School District. The report describes the school as...
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