The Freedom Train

Watch Personal Liberty's Wayne Allyn Root, a home-school father, discuss school choice, home-schooling, parental freedom and the disaster that is the U.S. public school system, in a video titled, "Homeschool to Harvard."

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Will School Choice Bills Jeopardize Home School Freedom?

UPDATE: Tim Lambert explains the basics of HB 1335 and SB3, the school choice bills filed late last week and today. Subscribe to THSC Home School Advocacy and News blog to get the upcoming full analysis on both bills.

HB 1335 - http://www.legis.state.tx.us/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=85R&Bill=HB1335

SB 3 - http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/85R/billtext/pdf/SB00003I.pdf#navpanes=0

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"Take a Book Home" Focus: HOPE Freedom School

Focus: HOPE Freedom School learning while having fun!

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Freedom Home Chicago school 2013

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Tim Lambert Equates College Placement Tests w/State Mandated Testing.

Texas Education Senate Hearing, April 23rd on Texas Tebow Bill and the threat to home school freedom.

Texas Home School Coalition's, Tim Lambert equates the taking of a College placement test for Dual Credit equal to yearly State Mandated Testing of those in K-12.

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Home Schooling in America: ‘Unschoolers’ Put Children in Charge of Their Learning

Daniel Matica, a father of five in rural Worthington, Mass., is from Romania and the first in his family to go to college. He says his traditional schooling experience in Romania made him skeptical when his wife Erin Matica suggested that their children not attend school. Erin Matica explains unschooling as a “philosophy of home schooling where the kids are in charge of their own educations.” The children decide what, and how, they learn, while the Maticas find ways to support their...

From: Education Week

Texas Home School Freedom and HSLDA: Different Paradigms

President Tim Lambert on why Texas Home School Coalition supports ESAs and Tim Tebow bills despite HSLDA's position. Lambert distinguishes home school regulation from rules to participate in optional programs, such as ESAs and UIL activities.

Remembering: "I Can't Let You Have My Children"

In the 1980's prior to the Leeper case which established home schooling as legal in Texas, families faced harassment, fines, and even jail time for choosing to home school their kids.

While the Leeper case was pending in 1986, the Texas State Board of Education held a hearing intending to regulate private and home schools. Thousands of people rallied in Austin to stand for freedom for Texas families. Instead of the intended regulation, the State Board of Education passed a resolution calling...

Jeremy Newman and Paul Hastings Testify in Support of Tim Tebow Bill

On April 6, 2017, THSC Public Policy Director, Jeremy Newman and home school graduate Paul Hastings both testified in favor of Senate Bill 640, known as the Tim Tebow Bill. If this bill passed, it would expand home school freedom by allowing home school students to participate in UIL sanctioned extracurricular activities. 16 home school students and parents came to testify in favor of the bill. Expanding home school freedom and parental choice is a vital part of Keeping Texas Families Free.

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