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Growth of Homeschooling

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A couple more articles on the continued growth of homeschooling: • Georgia: Homeschooling a growing trend From doctors and dentists to teachers, many professions are represented among the parents who homeschool children. For parents who own a business, homeschooling allows children to help out with the business while still receiving an education, she said....
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Homeschool Numbers On The Rise

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According to an article on the news blog for Channel 9 News in Chattanooga, Tennessee: Home schooling has increased in popularity across the country and here in Chattanooga. NewsChannel 9 hit the hallways for the first day of Hamilton County schools this week, and now we want to go to where home schooled students...
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NC Homeschools Multiply

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An article on homeschooling’s growth in North Carolina, linked from the front page of the Raliegh, NC News-Observer: The number of home schools has steadily increased across the state since home-schooling became legal in 1985, going from 381 schools that year to nearly 43,316 schools today, according to a recent report released by the...
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North Carolina Homeschooling

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Interesting news article highlighting the history of homeschooling in North Carolina, from the Lincoln-Tribune: RALEIGH — When Rod Helder became the second director of the state’s Division of Non-Public Education in 1985, he inherited a small staff and a unique arrangement for state regulation of private schools. Under the previous director, the state’s confrontational...
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Homeschools more popular

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From The McDowell News, McDowell County, North Carolina, comes this article, tellingly titled Homeschools more popular than private schools in McDowell: More kids are homeschooled in McDowell. Although the state has not released its figures for the 2009-10 school year, in 2008-09, 293 homeschools in McDowell educated 491 kids, more than twice the number...
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Homeschool Growth in Colorado

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More than 4,000 people will converge on Denver this weekend. They are attending the 27th annual conference of the Christian Home Educators of Colorado. “We provide resources, vision, workshops, talks; we have keynote speakers,” Mike Chapa, executive director of CHEC, said. “The home school movement is growing across this land and there’s estimates that...
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Enrollment Data on Homeschoolers

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Some states gather data on homeschoolers, some do not. I live in a state that does not, so I’ve been curious about the numbers that some in the media and elsewhere throw out occasionally about homeschooling’s continued explosive growth.
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