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		<title>Web letter by Sarah Prater: Stereotypes of home-schooled children are incorrect</title>
		<link>http://www.learningfreely.net/2010/03/05/web-letter-by-sarah-prater-stereotypes-of-home-schooled-children-are-incorrect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
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I&#8217;m 13 and have been home-schooled for eight years. I think people need to know more about home schooling because of the unfounded stereotypes that seem to label every child who is home-schooled. While some people do home school primarily because of their beliefs, special needs children or other reasons, it does not mean that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting for equal online education access for home-schooled students</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
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TRINITY &#8212; When Florida lawmakers required public school districts to provide local online course offerings, they decided the programs would be open only to students who had spent at least one full year in the public schools.

Wendy Howard and her daughter Jessica, who was being home-schooled last year, decided that wasn&#39;t fair.
They began a petition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona: Bill aims to give homeschooled students access to scholarships</title>
		<link>http://www.learningfreely.net/2010/02/19/arizona-bill-aims-to-give-homeschooled-students-access-to-scholarships/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
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Without a guidance counselor or advisor to assist them, college-bound home-schooled students rely heavily on personal research for scholarship information.
A new measure in the Arizona Legislature is attempting to lend those students a helping hand.

Senate Bill 1280 would require all state universities to publish eligibility criteria for merit-based scholarships and to inform all students about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legislative Victory for New Hampshire Homeschoolers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
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In a roll call vote on the floor of the House, legislators in New Hampshire have voted 324 to 34 to finally accept the House Education Committee recommendation of inexpedient to legislate (ITL) on HB368 . HB368 was justified by its sponsors and supporters with the familiar, &#8216;falling through the cracks&#8217; and &#8216;for the good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meanwhile: State to mom: Stop baby-sitting neighbors&#8217; kids</title>
		<link>http://www.learningfreely.net/2009/10/01/meanwhile-state-to-mom-stop-baby-sitting-neighbors-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kent</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category>
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Lisa Snyder, left, watches kids play at their bus stop, which is also her driveway, Friday, Sept. 25, 2009 with other neighborhood mothers Francie Brummel, back left, and Mindy Rose, back right, in Middleville, Mich. Snyder has been notified by State of Michigan that she is breaking the law because she watches her neighbors&#8217; children [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maryland: From home schooling to &#8216;unschooling&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.learningfreely.net/2009/09/05/maryland-from-home-schooling-to-unschooling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parents believe in letting children set the pace


Many parents consider Patapsco State Park a leisure destination. Suzy Provine of Millersville views it as a classroom.

George Provine, 6 (left), brothers Lance, almost 4, and Miles, 17 months, and mother, Suzy, look at a salamander George caught in Patapsco State Park. (Baltimore Sun photo by Algerina Perna [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pennsylvania: Murrysville couple challenges home-school law</title>
		<link>http://www.learningfreely.net/2009/08/21/pennsylvania-murrysville-couple-challenges-home-school-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kent</dc:creator>
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A Murrysville couple, long at odds with the Franklin Regional School District over the home-schooling of their now-grown children, filed a lawsuit in Westmoreland County Wednesday seeking a ruling to overturn laws that give public school districts the right to oversee home education.

The lawsuit was pursued a year after the federal courts ordered six families [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indiana-”The Home-School Effect”</title>
		<link>http://www.learningfreely.net/2009/07/22/indiana-%e2%80%9dthe-home-school-effect%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kent</dc:creator>
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A new pilot charter school has been approved in Indiana.   &#8220;The home-school effect&#8221; came up in the Journal Gazette, just as it often does in much of this educational trend&#8217;s media coverage, potential vendors&#8217; marketing points, along with many legislators&#8217; concerns.

Charter schools set for online trial run The Journal Gazette
by Niki Kelly Published: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Teen Become Youngest To Sail World Solo</title>
		<link>http://www.learningfreely.net/2009/07/18/california-teen-become-youngest-to-sail-world-solo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.learningfreely.net/2009/07/18/california-teen-become-youngest-to-sail-world-solo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kent</dc:creator>
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`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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virginia: State council approves plan for home-school grads to get student aid</title>
		<link>http://www.learningfreely.net/2009/07/16/state-council-approves-plan-for-home-school-grads-to-get-student-aid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kent</dc:creator>
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The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia approved new criteria Tuesday that will allow home-schooled graduates to qualify for state financial aid that they were previously barred from receiving.

The Virginia Guaranteed Assistance Program (VGAP) can cover full tuition, fees and a book allowance for financially needy students. But the VGAP required students to be [...]]]></description>
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