Home schooling has become America’s fastest-growing form of education

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Home schooling has become — by a wide margin — America’s fastest-growing form of education, a Washington Post analysis shows.

The analysis — based on data The Post collected for thousands of school districts across the country — reveals that a dramatic rise in home schooling at the onset of the pandemic has largely sustained itself through the 2022-23 academic year.

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The Post was able to collect reliable data from 32 states and the District of Columbia, representing more than 60 percent of the country’s school-age population. In 18 of those states, private and public school enrollment figures were available for comparison.

In 11 states, including Texas, Michigan, Connecticut and Illinois, officials do not require notification when families decide to educate their children at home or monitor how those students are faring. Seven additional states have unreliable tallies of home-schooled kids, The Post found.

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The resulting analysis — which includes home-school registration figures for nearly 7,000 individual school districts — is the most detailed look to date at growth in American home schooling.

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