Home Schooling Law

Although it comes as a surprise to many parents, home schooling is perfectly legal throughout the United States, although individual states do impose their own home schooling law which must be strictly adhered to.

The provisions of home schooling law across the 50 states varies very widely with some states, such as Idaho and Texas, placing few restriction on parents and others, such as Massachusetts and New York, taking a fairly heavy handed stance on home schooling.

Over the years numerous attempts have been made to impose greater state control over home schooling, and indeed to make public school attendance compulsory, but the vast majority of these have failed and court decisions have been firmly in favor of parents since an historic Supreme Court ruling in 1925 which affirmed that the care and education of a child was the responsibility of the parents and not of the state.

Despite the legal position each state is permitted to regulate home schooling and so it is vital that parents undertaking home schooling acquaint themselves with the requirements of their state and follow these requirements to the letter.

In 1983 the HSLDA (Home School Legal Defense Association) was established to fight for the rights of home schooling parents and this is an excellent starting point for parents seeking to understand their legal position.

Alberta Law Would Ban Homeschool Parents From Teaching Against Homosexuality ...
1 Mar 2012 at 4:33pm

Home School Legal Defense Association
Alberta Law Would Ban Homeschool Parents From Teaching Against Homosexuality
The New American
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Santorum scorns govt role in education but used tax dollars for his kids ... ...
2 Mar 2012 at 4:29am

Boston.com
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Washington Post
Santorum plays up how he and his wife have home-schooled their seven children and says parents should be the ones responsible for educating their ...
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Does My High School Grad Need a GED - Home School Legal Defense Association
1 Mar 2012 at 4:10pm

Home School Legal Defense Association
Does My High School Grad Need a GED
Home School Legal Defense Association
Will Estrada has been leading our efforts to defend homeschooling on Capitol Hill since 2006. He is a homeschool graduate who married a ho...
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Senate panel votes down 'Tebow bill' - Richmond Times Dispatch
1 Mar 2012 at 11:02pm

Senate panel votes down 'Tebow bill'
Richmond Times Dispatch
About two dozen student-athletes from Varina High School attended a Senate Education and Health Committee meeting Thursday in an argument against the "Tebow bill" that would have made it e...
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