re: Homeschooling and the New Administration

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Homeschooling is exploding over the country and for good reason.

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I'm a relatively competent user of the internet but can't find much data to support this. The COVID impact will make current numbers irrelevant for analysis - and it makes sense to me that quite a few people may decide to go full homeschooling after doing some form of it during the pandemic. Seems it'd take a year or two to have them level back out to see where we are.

Some slightly recent data:
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The number of children being homeschooled grew 28.9% between 1999 and 2003, 37.6% between 2003 and 2007, and 17.4% between 2007 and 2011-2012. Between 2011-2012 and 2015-2016, the number of children being homeschooled deceased by 4.5%. The highest rate of homeschool growth occurred between 2003 and 2007.

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Also see that you don't necessarily have to report that you're homeschooling, so any numbers will have a margin of error.

I read the reason.com article about this, and there's a bit of data but it skews into an opinion piece.

I think homeschooling is fine as long as there's a way to measure children are being prepared to a reasonable educational level. I also think quality public education is critical. Many people in single head-of-household or families that need to work two jobs need public school options.

And challenges to homeschooling would most likely be at the state level and not federal, no? There's no record I can find of Cardona saying anything hostile towards home schooling.