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Based on independent research conducted by organizations ranging from the National Home Education Research Institute (www.nheri.org), a nonprofit research and educational organization, to the federally funded National Center for Education Statistics (www.nces.ed.gov), it appears that in the U.S., homeschooling is the fastest-growing form of education. Read the rest of this entry »

While this article pertains to the homeschooling laws of California, CHOIS felt that it was worth sharing.

Retrieved 6/18/10 from http://pheofca.org/Public-Education-Recruiting-in-Hospital.html

Roy Hanson, Jr. – Director

Most homeschoolers would be caught by surprise if they had just admitted their child to the hospital and then were approached by someone with a school enrollment form. Yet this is essentially what happened to one family earlier this year when they had to admit their home-schooled son into Children’s Hospital in San Diego, and stumbled on what appears to be a new kind of trial public school program in that city. Read the rest of this entry »

Home School Legal Defense Association gets invovled with a New Hampshire court decision.

http://www.hslda.org/hs/state/nh/201005190.asp

 Home School Legal Defense Association has filed a friend of the court brief in a New Hampshire custody case that threatened to establish a rule that could be harmful to homeschoolers. Read the rest of this entry »

We hope that you will consider attending the CHOIS Convention on June 3-5, 2010. We found this guide very helpful and wanted to share it with you. 

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 Is home-schooling among Texas high school kids growing by leaps and bounds? The numbers look fishy, and we’re suspicious that really, something ugly is happening.

According to the Texas Education Agency, more than 22,620 high school students stopped showing up for class in 2008 but weren’t listed as dropouts. Instead, their schools filed paperwork declaring that those students had left to be home-schooled. Read the rest of this entry »

This is an update on the child in Sweden who was removed from the custody of his parents because he was being homeschooled. 

Hustled off in truck to prevent meeting human-rights lawyer

Posted: May 11, 2010

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=152697

 By Bob Unruh

Social-services agents in Sweden have swooped down on an elementary school to grab a 9-year-old boy and take him out of class so he would not meet an internationally known human-rights attorney working on the family’s custody dispute with the state, according to the attorney and parents. Read the rest of this entry »

CHOIS found this article interesting, and we hope that you do as well.

By JENNIFER RADCLIFFE

HOUSTON CHRONICLE

May 10, 2010, 9:21PM

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6999109.html

 More than 22,620 Texas secondary students who stopped showing up for class in 2008 were excluded from the state’s dropout statistics because administrators said they were being home-schooled, according to Texas Education Agency figures.

 But that’s where the scrutiny of this growing population seems to end, leaving some experts convinced that schools are disguising thousands of middle and high school dropouts in this hands-off category. Read the rest of this entry »

Public schoolers: How’s that indoctrination workin’ out?

Patrice Lewis contrasts today’s gov’t monopoly with days of Ingalls Wilder

 http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=144845

I recently did something I haven’t done in decades: I reread the Laura Ingalls Wilder series (the Little House books). The contrast between the schools of Laura’s time (late 1800s) and the schools of today is staggering. Utterly incomprehensible.

 To illustrate, consider some recent headlines: Read the rest of this entry »

Legislative proposal ‘would essentially ban’ freedom in education

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=146273

 By Bob Unruh

Members of Sweden’s parliament are being warned to drop plans to change their homeschooling laws or they soon could be on par with Germany, where persecution over homeschooling recently prompted a family to flee to the U.S. for asylum.

 The warning comes from the Virginia-based Home School Legal Defense Association, the premier homeschooling-advocacy organization in the world. Read the rest of this entry »

In the opinion of a traditional values leader in California, the state assembly has taken more action to declare that public schools are “morality-free zones.”

 The latest measure, ACR 82, is the sixth passed by the California legislature, and according to Randy Thomasson, president of SaveCalifornia.com, that amounts to “school sexual indoctrination.” Though it is disguised as creating “discrimination-free zones,” he points out the bill has caused a great deal of controversy. Read the rest of this entry »

By John P. Martin

The system that Lower Merion school officials used to track lost and
stolen laptops wound up secretly capturing thousands of images,
including photographs of students in their homes, Web sites they
visited, and excerpts of their online chats, says a new motion filed in
a suit against the district.

More than once, the motion asserts, the camera on Robbins’ school-issued
laptop took photos of Robbins as he slept in his bed. Each time, it
fired the images off to network servers at the school district. Read the rest of this entry »