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New Study Shows Homeschoolers Excel Academically
LifeSiteNews • 8/12/2009
Homeschoolers, on average, scored 37% above public school students on standardized achievement tests. PURCELLVILLE, Virginia (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) has released a new study: the Progress Report 2009: Homeschool Academic Achievement and Demographics, ...
Victory for Brazilian Homeschoolers
By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman • LifeSiteNews • 9/3/2008
Exams were ordered by a local court in an attempt to determine if a homeschooling family had committed the crime of "intellectual abandonment". Their sons passed them all. MINAS GERAIS, Brazil (LifeSiteNews) - In a surprise victory against government officials who sought to prosecute a ...
Victory: Homeschoolers Win Landmark Case
Catholic Online • 8/8/2008
"This is a great victory for homeschool freedom," said Michael Farris, one of the team of attorneys who argued the case before the court and Chairman of HSLDA. PURCELLVILLE, Virginia (Christian Newswire) - In a 3-0 decision the California Court of Appeal for the Second Appellate District reversed ...
HSLDA Attorneys' Defense of Parents Before the D.C. School Board
Home School Legal Defense Association • 8/2/2008
Attorney Christopher Klicka of the Homeschool Legal Defense Associations' testimony before the Washington DC School Board is clear, convincing and apparently disregarded. WASHINGTON, DC (HSLDA) - For the last 23 years I have worked as Senior Counsel at the Home School Legal Defense Association. ...
Washington D.C. Further Restricts Homeschooling Families
By Thaddeus M. Baklinski • LifeSiteNews • 8/2/2008
D.C. State Board of Education Approved New Restrictive Homeschool Regulations in spite of National Outcry. WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) - The State Board of Education in the District of Columbia has approved the State Superintendent of Education's final draft of home education regulations that ...
Mary's Shelter: Homeschooling moms offer room, hope to pregnant women in crisis
By Henrietta Gomes • Arlington Catholic Herald • 3/26/2008
FREDERICKSBURG, VA (Arlington Catholic Herald) - Sitting around a humble kitchen table, four women chat and laugh among themselves in a modest home in the downtown district of Fredericksburg. A three-week-old baby in a deep slumber lay peaceful in a pastel blue basinet on the floor next to his mom, ...
