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RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Officials in Riverside County, Calif., have agreed to pay a family $700,000 as part of a federal civil rights lawsuit that was filed after Child Protective Services (CPS) seized a seven-year-old boy and a four-year-old girl. “CPS ...

A homeschool family was almost forced to send their special-needs daughter to public school because someone thought their house was messy. An anonymous tipster told Montana’s Child & Family Services that the family’s home was messy, leading to a visit ...

A public school official in Florida has urged citizens to fight truancy by reporting any children they suspect might not be in school or being educated — including homeschool families. It is all part of an “anti-truancy” initiative called Operation Round ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — An unidentified homeschool mother in Ohio faced up to 180 days in jail for not filing paperwork on time – even though she taught her child the entire time. The mother’s problems began when she withdrew her ...

NEWARK, Ohio — A superintendent of schools was willing to bend state law in order to gather information about a homeschool family, the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSDLA) is alleging. David Hile, the superintendent for the Licking Valley Local ...

  PHILADELPHIA – Homeschoolers are given quite a bit of freedom in many states, but one family was recently shocked when the local superintendent ordered their young child to repeat a grade. The unnamed family, which lives in Pennsylvania, had ...

  If you live in a homestead and try to homeschool your kids, then doing so may be one of the most challenging tasks you have to face every day. On top of gardening, food preservation, animal care, mucking, cooking ...

A school district in one US state is preparing to conduct random audits of homeschool families in what one nationwide homeschool organization says is an unconstitutional move. The audits by the Clinton County (Kentucky) school district will examine both academic ...

Two separate homeschool families in Ohio face jail time and thousands of dollars in fines for narrowly missing state deadlines of which they were unaware. The charges are for “contributing to the delinquency of a minor” – even though the ...

A homeschool family has been sued by neighbors for letting the children play outside, and the mom is speaking out. Homeschool mom Kelly Counts and her husband are facing a lawsuit over the “loud and obnoxious noise and commotion caused ...