Tag Archives: homeschooling

Putting NH's new alternative curricula law in context

Recently, my good buddy Jason Becker shared this arti­cle with me over here. An excerpt: New Hampshire’s Republican-dominated Leg­is­la­ture over­rode Demo­c­ra­tic Gov. John Lynch’s veto Wednes­day to enact a law let­ting par­ents request an alter­na­tive cur­ricu­lum for any sub­ject they object to, leg­is­la­tion that crit­ics say could limit children’s access to a com­pre­hen­sive and qual­ity edu­ca­tion. H.B. 542

tax credits for homeschooling: initial thoughts

As I wrote recently, I’m cur­rently in an ed pol­icy class and doing my first real series of pol­icy docs. After much delib­er­a­tion, I have decided to ana­lyze the prospect of NYC pro­vid­ing tax cred­its (or some other form of com­pen­sa­tion) to fam­i­lies who home­school their chil­dren. Although, to my knowl­edge, there is no seri­ous