Posts Tagged ‘ homeschooling ’

A victory for a military homeschooling family in CT

An update on the situation in Connecticut concerning the homeschooling mom whose husband was militarily deployed when the problems began: Hoo Ya! A Victory For A Military Homeschool Family in CT!, 6 July 2007, Consent of the Governed The DCF Commissioner, Susan Hamilton, send a certified letter to Isabelle Hall-Gustafsen, whose husband had been...
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Group works on grass energy project

Group works on grass energy project, 6 July 2007, Burlington Free Press, Burlington,VermontSome of the high schoolers simply stared or sneezed at the flaky dust pouring out of the noisy, trailer-mounted hammer mill parked Tuesday outside the University of Vermont’s Votey Hall. The stuff had once been a hay bale. Some calculated its worth...
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Pint-sized singer all set to perform for pope

Pint-sized singer all set to perform for pope, 3 July 2007, Daytona Beach News-Journal, Daytona, Florida The third-grade home-schooler is Catholic and says it will be an honor to sing at the Vatican . She is a bit nervous but not worried because her mom will be traveling...
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Ludlow skater lands star role

Ludlow skater lands star role, 1 July 2007, Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio Jordan Brauninger was only looking for a job, but he landed the role of a lifetime. Brauninger mailed an audition tape to Feld Entertainment, hoping to end a series of local odd jobs. He wound up being one of 18 world-class skaters...
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An orchestra of their own

An orchestra of their own, 28 June 2007, Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Two years after the state started to allow home-schooled kids to sign up for public school bands and sports teams, the Central Pennsylvania Homeschool Orchestra Ensemble is alive and well. In 2005, when the state required public school districts to allow Pennsylvania’s 25,000...
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Prince William county, Virginia schools opened to homeschooled kids

Public school activities open to all, 28 June 2007, Potomac News, Woodbridge, Virginia Next year, homeschool and private school pupils will have the option of participating in extracurricular activities in Prince William County Public Schools for the first time. In 2004, the county School Board approved a partial enrollment policy to allow homeschool and...
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Homeschoolers, HSLDA and military enlistment

How many more times are we going to go round with this? Happy as Kings, Homeschoolers and Tier I enlistment category I love homeschooling, and I respect homeschooled kids, but there is a difference in attrition rates between people who attend institutional schools during high school and those who don’t. My ‘shorthand’ for this...
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Louisiana TOPS scholarship and homeschoolers

Louisiana House Bill 634 has been sent to the governor for signature: Status: SENT TO THE GOVERNOR Updated: 6/29/2007 (use search term HB 634) Background on bill: House panel OKs TOPS bill, The Advocate, 13 June 2007, Baton Rouge, Louisiana Arguing that home-schooled students are not “roving bands of truants,” a House committee agreed...
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Virginia warning

Chris at O’Donnellweb posted about a county asking for overcompliance with Virginia law. Warning for Virginia Homeschoolers We are under no legal obligation to provide that level of detail. Don’t do it. Do what you normally do, which probably matches what we do. Take last year’s notification of intent, edit it as needed, change...
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Idaho’s governor is pro-homeschooling, but the Superintendent of Public Instruction isn’t

The author of this piece bends the reader forwards and backwards with all the objectivity. Keep ‘Em Home, 20 June 2007, Boise Weekly, Boise, Idaho Homeschooling, that oft-misunderstood anomaly of Idaho education, has a good friend in the governor’s office for the first time in a long while. … Otter described homeschooling as a...
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