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Illinois Review: Illinois Homeschoolers Don't Need IDs from the ...

by Susan Ryan

Illinois' Boone County Board is contemplating a truancy ordinance [Ordinance pdf is linked on the right sidebar]. They like to call it a truancy ordinance, but it's more accurate to call it a daytime curfew.  

Last fall, Boone/Winnebago County Regional Office of Education Superintendent Richard Fairgrieves responded to some Illinois Homeschool Freedom Watch members who were concerned about his office's over-compliant demands of homeschoolers.  His assumption that private...

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Date: 2011-04-27 00:15:00

Related topics : how to do home school / how to homeschool and work / homeschool to public high school

Illinois Review: NEA stands firm on homeschool regs

In her annual National Education Association resolution report, Phyllis Schlafly reviews  an array of resolutions were passed that define the biggest public school teacher union's platform.  No changes were made this year to the NEA's position on homeschooling. 

The NEA stands firm that home schooling parents should be licensed by the state and homeschool students should be assessed according to state curriculum standards, despite homeschoolers faring way above average without...

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Date: 2011-08-31 12:48:52

Related topics : national education association home / home schooling programs / home schooling schools