Posts Tagged ‘ Virginia homeschooling ’

Virginia-Homeschoolers eligible for higher education financial aid

State council approves plan for home-school grads to get student aid The Virginian-Pilot By Denise Watson Batts The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia approved new criteria Tuesday that will allow home-schooled graduates to qualify for state financial aid that they were previously barred from receiving. More below on the Organization of Virginia...
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Virginia city council questions joint-homeschooling

Danville City Council OKs permits for new day care centers, 9 May 2008, GoDanRiver.com – Danville, Virginia The request asked for permission to use space in the Al-Taqwa Islamic Center at 120 S. Union St. for members to jointly home-school their children. Councilmen David Luther and E. Stokes Daniels both pointed out that home-schooling...
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Virginia law in a nutshell, and a little more

I believe this article is meant to be ‘about’ homeschooling, but instead, it is a recitation of legal constraints on home education in Virginia. The single comment on the piece is about an addition to the constraints that doesn’t appear in law. Parents Say Home Schooling ‘Rewarding,’ 29 March 2008, Rocktown Weekly, Harrisonburg, Virginia...
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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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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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Kiplinger article attracts attention

The article is ‘generic,’ but has interesting vignettes of homeschooling families. The information on Virginia is inaccurate as Virginians report that they only notify the county, they don’t seek approval of any curricular materials. Kiplinger.com, Washington, D.C., 21 February 2007, Finance Lessons for Home Schoolers (single page version) A custom-tailored classroom has a lot...
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