Posts Tagged ‘ Public School at Home ’

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

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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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National Charter School Watch

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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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Homeschool Numbers

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Interesting article about homeschool numbers and factors in homeschooling, from Oregon: Douglas County boasted 727 homeschoolers last year, according to the Douglas Education Service District, which serves as a checkpoint for families registering each child’s exit from a school district. After a boom several years ago, the number of students in homeschooling locally has...
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Homeschool Identity

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In a poorly spelled article (See: What’s in a Name HEM May-June 2010) on the Wenatchee World’s site (WA) the concern with blurring the lines between homeschooling and public schooling-at-home comes into clear focus: Home-school definition, identity blurs with new programs There’s more than one way to learn at home, but not all of...
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Online schools siphon area districts’ funding

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This article from Wenatchee WA about school funding uses the term ‘homeschool’ very loosely. The enrollment war is troublesome for districts trying to plan their yearly budgets. Methow Valley School District started the year with a $60,000 deficit because 15 homeschool families unexpectedly transferred out, said Superintendent Mark Wenzel. The school district offered its...
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Please don’t call it homeschooling

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It is tempting to just give this the Worst Headline award, but it is only Thursday morning: Homeschool parents seek charter school in Medford A group of parents who homeschool their children submitted an application today to found a public charter school for homeschoolers in the Medford School District. Logos Charter School organizers say...
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Should Iowa pay millions for home schools?

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A lot of issues come to the fore in this piece, which as I read, is at the top of the site’s “Most Viewed Stories” list ahead of ISU beating Nebraska, a plane crash, and a shooting of a mountain lion. That is interesting in itself. Some excerpts from the piece that caught my...
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Ohio’s Educational Dilemma

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Ohio’s educational dilemma Times-Gazette 4/30/2009 Jim Surber Of course, parents should have the choice to home-school, or send their children to public or charter schools. The problem, as usual, comes down to money. All property owners (and renters indirectly) in Ohio, pay for public education through real estate taxes. The remaining cost is paid...
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Neither homeschooling, nor objective

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Hat tip to Susan of Taffie. More Students Hitting the Books Online. 21 August 2008, Las Vegas Now, Las Vegas, Nevada Thousands of valley children head back to the classroom on Monday, but for a growing number of Nevada students, that trek takes them no farther than their own living room. Thanks to the...
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Customer manipulation

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The following article popped up because of the inclusion of one of the subjects of the article having homeschooled her kids. Otherwise, the article isn’t about homeschooling, but focuses on telling prospective employees how to implement online school programs. I’d say ‘teacher training,’ but I’m grumpy about mystiques lately. (and it’s not just ‘teachers,’...
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