Posts Tagged ‘ in Re Rachel L. ’

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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Department of Unjustified Prosecutions for the Peoples Republik of Kalifornia

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I caught a glimpse of this somewhere else the other day (too many articles, too little time), and now I’m catching up with the news alert backlog.  The op/ed is a scathing take on the point of view that homeschooling must be regulated. Drooling Home-Schooling Ruling, 18 June 2008, River Cities Reader, Davenport, Iowa “Cindy Kayshan...
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Nutshell description of California case

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Home schooling thrives with current guidelines, 10 June 2008, Modesto Bee, Modesto, California When a child reported physical and emotional mistreatment at home, the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services investigated. As part of the inquiry, officials found that the children were being home- schooled by the mother through an independent...
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California summary from HSC

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   The support network, HomeSchool Association of California, has issued a summary of the In re Rachel L. situation. Summary of the Case, “In re Rachel L. et al” In February 2008, an appellate court in Los Angeles issued a decision that interpreted California’s education laws in a way that was very unfavorable to...
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The reports about the California situation still have legs

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  John Stossel throws his typewriter in the ring. Threat to homeschooling, 2 April 2008, Real Clear Politics, Chicago, Illinois The cat is finally out of the bag. A California appellate court, ruling that parents have no constitutional right to homeschool their children, pinned its decision on this ominous quotation from a 47-year-old case,...
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California dreaming on a rainy night in Georgia

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More commentary from lots of people who don’t homeschool about the few that do. California Reeling, 29 March 2008, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia Locally, home-schooling parents worry about the copy cat effect. States who see what has transpired in California might get bright ideas to adopt similar credential mandates, said Hermitt, a married...
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Wall Street Journal op/ed, and replies, about the now-vacated California court decision

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Certifying Parents, 22 March 2008, Wall Street Journal, New York, New York The case was initiated by the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services after a home-schooled child reportedly complained of physical abuse by his father. A lawyer assigned to two of the family’s eight children invoked the truancy law to get...
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