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CA Parents Eager for Ruling on Home Schooling

Posted by Charlie Kilo on April 20th, 2008

I often wonder what laws I’m breaking in ignorance - laws that could change my life and the way I raise my family if the government ever chose to enforce them:

Parents of an estimated 166,000 children in California are eagerly awaiting a state appellate court ruling on whether they have a constitutional right to home-school their children without a teaching credential.

That question sprouted unexpectedly on Feb. 28, when a panel of three judges ruled that parents or tutors of children who are home-schooled must be certified by the state, basing their ruling on a rarely enforced state education law. Few parents knew the law existed.