Category Archives: Legal

REGULATING HOME EDUCATION: The Legal Situation in Great Britain

Record: Daniel Monk, “Regulating Home Education: Negotiating Standards, Anomalies, and Rights” in Child and Family Law Quarterly 21, no. 2(2009): 155-184 Summary: Monk, Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, Birbeck at the University of London, has been studying homeschooling … Continue reading

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PRIVATE OPPRESSION: The FLDS and Homeschooling Regulation

Record:  Teri Dobbins Baxter, “Private Oppression: How Laws that Protect Privacy Can Lead to Oppression” in Kansas Law Review 58, no. 2 (January 2010): 415-471   [Available for purchase here] Summary:  Baxter, Professor of Law at St. Louis University, here seeks … Continue reading

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CONSTITUTIONALITY OF HOME EDUCATION: California Law and Legal Precedent

Record:  Chad Olsen, “Constitutionality of Home Education: How the Supreme Court and American History Endorse Parental Choice” in Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal 2 (2009): 399-423  Summary:  Olsen, an attorney in the Las Vegas area and former law … Continue reading

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HOMESCHOOLING AND RACISM

Record:  Tal Levy, “Homeschooling and Racism” in Journal of Black Studies (November 2007): 1-19. (Available fulltext here). Summary:  Levy calls his approach “Diffusion Research,” a methodology that looks at how a reform spreads and tries to ascertain why certain locations adopt … Continue reading

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EDUCATION OFF THE GRID: A Law Professor Advocates for Increasing Homeschooling Regulations

Record: Kimberly A. Yuracko, “Education off the Grid: Constitutional Constraints on Homeschooling” in California Law Review 96, no. 1 (Feb. 2008): 123-184. Summary: Yuracko, a law professor at Northwestern University here makes the case that state statutes and the Equal … Continue reading

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EQUAL ACCESS: a Lawyer argues for Full Homeschooler Access to Public Education Resources

Record: John T. Plecnik, “Equal Access to Public Education: An Examination of the State Constitutional and Statutory Rights of Nonpublic Students to Participate in Public School Programs on a Part-Time Basis in North Carolina and Across the Nation,” published in … Continue reading

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