`It`s awesome to be back` Sunderland, of Thousand Oaks, California, said after he was welcomed home by a flotilla of well-wishers.
Sunderland, 17, stands aboard his 36-foot (11-meter) sloop Intrepid at the Del Rey Yacht Club in Marina Del Rey.
A 17-year-old U.S. mariner piloted his battered sailboat into a Southern California harbor on Thursday to [...]
According to the Tages Anzeiger, one of the most widely read newspapers in Switzerland, homeschooling is about to become severely restricted in the Canton of Zurich.
Private Education: Parents threaten with disobedience
December 4, 2008
Beginning next summer at the latest, parents will only be allowed to educated their children at home when they have a teacher’s certificate. [...]
If you’ve ever been frustrated at having to explain the difference between a scientific theory and a hypothesis, you’re hardly alone. But it’s not just folks without a science background who get confused over the terminology; even some science grads have trouble telling a fact from a law. And some in the scientific community worry [...]
How well students and schools – from kindergarten through high school – succeed in mastering a curriculum that includes English Language Arts (ELA), mathematics, and the social and natural sciences, strongly influences how well the students fare in higher education.
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) used state assessment data reported for the school [...]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline)-Parents do not need teacher certification to teach their own children at home following a change of legal opinion issued by the California state Appellate Court on Friday.
The victory for home-schooling organizations reverses the court’s previous opinion issued in February, which organizations viewed as a ban.
Supporters argued the ruling could seriously [...]
n this dependency case, we consider the legality of, and restraints upon, home schooling in California.1 We will conclude that: (1) California statutes permit home schooling as a species of private school education; and (2) the statutory permission to home school may constitutionally be overridden in order to protect the safety of a child who [...]
Anyone interested in the nearly criminal mismanagement of the nation’s government-run schools need only do research on the acronym LAUSD. In March 2006 Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraiogosa gave a speech blasting the LAUSD-Los Angeles Unified School District-for its "culture of complacency" and described the dropout problem in the district as "the new civil rights [...]
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Can California force parents to send their children outside the home for their education, regardless of the quality of instruction they receive at home? Today, the California Court of Appeal in Los Angeles will hear arguments in a case raising this issue – the constitutional rights of parents to direct the education [...]
DEBATE ON WHETHER TEACHING CREDENTIALS ARE NEEDED REOPENS
With the battle lines drawn, a state appeals court in Los Angeles today will once again consider a controversial case that could drastically affect the growing home-school movement in California.
The 2nd District Court of Appeal will hear arguments in a legal fight over whether parents who home-school [...]
When a California court ruled that two children could not be taught at home, it became a cause celebre for those claiming that home-schooling was being outlawed.
In fact, the ruling has less to do with the right to educate children at home and more to protect children from neglect and abuse — a reminder that [...]
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