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Two young homeschooled children were taken from their mother because of a social worker’s improper reading of a blood test – and then kept in state custody for weeks even though the state’s own doctors said the children were perfectly ...

The Sandy Hook Advisory Commission is urging Connecticut lawmakers to require stricter regulations for homeschooling children – a proposal that already is stirring up controversy and opposition. After all, Connecticut lawmakers proposed a bill last year that would have required ...

In a case that is just now becoming public, a Massachusetts couple found themselves facing truancy charges earlier this year because they chose to homeschool their sick son. The boy, Samuel (whose last name was not revealed), and his parents ...

A homeschooling family in New Jersey was illegally ordered to use the Common Core curriculum and have the local superintendent of schools approve what they taught, according to the Home School Legal Defense Association. The shocking turn of events took ...

A homeschool family facing deportation to Germany – where homeschooling is illegal — has received a sliver of hope from the US Supreme Court. The high court has ordered Attorney General Eric Holder to issue a response to the Home ...

Although it started as a grassroots movement in the early 1980s when it was not legal to homeschool in some states, the number of homeschooled students in America today has grown to more than 2 million children. Colleges have taken ...

Common Core is a highly controversial public education initiative which has led many to fear that national data on students and families will be collected by the federal government – a charge that the nation’s leading home school legal organization ...

When there’s a crisis or disaster and you are anchored at your bug out/bug in location, your children’s education will become your sole responsibility. Many homesteading and off-grid families have already opted to teach their children in a home classroom ...

I’m sure you’ve heard the arguments a thousand times from your critics: Homeschooled kids are anti-social, they don’t know how to cope in the real world, or even that homeschoolers are social outcasts. If you are already homeschooling your kids, ...

It seems as if there are as many reasons for homeschooling as there are parents. Some parents know without a doubt when their first child is born they want to teach their children themselves. Others don’t think about it until ...