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NEWS: Homeschoolers await ruling
Sent March 15th 2010
Joliet Herald News, IL
Homeschoolers await ruling
By KRIS STADALSKY For Sun-Times Media
MINOOKA -- Homeschooled students who live in the Minooka High School District will have to wait before they find out whether the school will allow them to participate...
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NEWS: Gathering for home schooling
Sent March 11th 2010
Evansville Courier & Press, IN
Gathering for home schooling
1,000 expected for conference
By John Martin
EVANSVILLE — Organizers are expecting about 1,000 people at this weekend's 16th annual Homeschool Convention conducted by Southwestern Indiana Home E...
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NEWS: Co-op creates community for home-schooled kids
Sent March 10th 2010
Chicago Tribune, IL
Co-op creates community for home-schooled kids
By Margaret Ramirez
Lori Nitzsche decided to home-school her children not out of faith, but as a way to connect with them and customize their curriculum, she said.
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NEWS: Home schooling a growing movement in Q-C
Sent March 8th 2010
Quad City Times
Home schooling a growing movement in Q-C
Kurt Allemeier
The four Oliger children crowded around a kitchen table for a science lab before two headed off to Davenport’s Sudlow Intermediate School for afternoon classes on a recent Friday.
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NEWS: Hidden, Now Revealed: the True Cost of Public Schools
Sent March 6th 2010
Dakota Voice
Hidden, Now Revealed: the True Cost of Public Schools
By Bob Ellis
The Cato Institute has an informative new video out about the cost of public schools…and the hidden costs of public schools. The per-pupil spending in the average public sch...
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NEWS: Michigan 6-Year-Old Suspended From School for Making Gun With Hand
Sent March 6th 2010
Fox News
Michigan 6-Year-Old Suspended From School for Making Gun With Hand
A Michigan boy reportedly has been suspended from school for curling his hand into the shape of a gun and pointing it at another student.
Read the entire article here:
http://www...
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NEWS: Homeschooling expanding beyond kitchen table
Sent March 3rd 2010
St. Louis Suburban Journals, MO
Homeschooling expanding beyond kitchen table
Homeschoolers find educational resources more readily available today
By Kevin Carbery
Every time Lydia Wood visits her mother and siblings, it's a class reunion.
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NEWS: US grants German homeschoolers asylum. Will others follow?
Sent March 3rd 2010
Christian Science Monitor
US grants German homeschoolers asylum. Will others follow?
Berlin
A January decision by a US court to grant German homeschoolers political asylum has encouraged other Germans engaged in a decade-long losing battle against their ...
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NEWS: Last year's runner-up wins this year at Spelling Bee
Sent March 1st 2010
Muncie Star Press, IN
Last year's runner-up wins this year at Spelling Bee
MUNCIE -- Upon hearing the 220th word in the Star Press Spelling Bee, Tommy Arnold, 12, finally breathed a sigh of relief.
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http://www.thestarpress.c...
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NEWS: Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Homeschool
Sent February 27th 2010
Time Magazine, USA
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Homeschool
By Tristana Moore
The Romeikes are not your typical asylum seekers. They did not come to the U.S. to flee war or despotism in their native land. No, these music ...