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Simply homeschooling or having a large number of children can now apparently get a family investigated by a social worker in some states. In fact, one homeschool mom says that a social worker visited her home because her children allegedly ...

All parents of children in public and private schools would have to undergo social services background checks when enrolling their kids in school in Ohio under a new proposed state law. The bill by State Senator Capri S. Cafaro (D-Youngstown) ...

Parents do not have a right to homeschool under the US Constitution, says Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Scalia also believes there is no right to school choice within the Constitution. The conservative justice often is a favorite among those ...

A family in New York State was threatened with scrutiny by a social worker because parents chose to homeschool their son, the Home School Legal Defense Association says. The dispute began in Mid-August when the unidentified family in the Minisink ...

Homeschooling families could be forced to send children to kindergarten or teach kindergarten at home if a movement that is spreading across the country succeeds. As of now only 15 states require kindergarten, but a growing number of officials in ...

Homeschool families in two different states are facing increased scrutiny from local officials that critics are calling an invasion of privacy. To make matters worse, local officials in Kentucky and Mississippi are making demands of homeschool families that could be ...

Homeschool children would have to submit to in-person meetings twice a year by cops, social workers, doctors or other state-approved individuals under proposed legislation making its way through the Michigan legislature. House Bill (HB) 4498 also would require homeschool families ...

Read the original story here. The off-grid parents of the children known as the “Kentucky 10” did not receive the news they had hoped to hear at a Monday hearing and won’t be getting their children back this week. Joe ...

To read the initial story about the family, click here.  The off-grid, homeschool mother of the 10 children who were seized has spoken out on Facebook in defense of her family’s self-sufficient life – and she’s receiving plenty of support. ...

To read an update on this story, click here,  here and here.  An off-grid homeschool family of 12 in rural Kentucky was raided, the mother arrested, and the 10 children seized simply because the government disagrees with their lifestyle and their educational ...