Since the COVID-19 pandemic, former public school teacher Kellista Keaton has helped colleagues leave for educational alternatives such as homeschooling and micro-schools. “They stepped away from their job, and I’ve been mentoring them,” said Keaton, owner of The Little Green Schoolhouse in Olathe, Kansas. “It’s interesting that we’re going back to that one-room schoolhouse model that…

Homeschool associations in Kansas and Missouri are preparing for a day at the state capitol where families can meet lawmakers and celebrate their educational freedoms. The Christian Home Education Coalition of Kansas (CHECK) is planning its Homeschool Capitol Day on Feb. 2 in Topeka. Missouri’s Families for Home Education (FHE) is planning its Homeschool Day at…

Testing homeschool students to see how they compare to their public school peers? Bring it on, say the organizers of a nationwide study aiming to measure the academic achievement of homeschooling families in 2023. “We continue to see increasing attacks on homeschooling and our freedoms,” says Homeschool Freedom, which is leading the initiative. “We know that…

Homeschool students are facing off against their public-school peers in U.S. robotics contests, and they are winning. The “Family Instructors of the Northern Suburbs” Christian homeschool team placed second in T-shirt design and third for overall achievement in a regional championship this month in Colorado. “This is our first year coaching, and my husband said all…

A Texas mom is reporting significant improvements in her children’s academic performance after pulling them out of the public elementary school where they were exposed to inappropriate sex and gender education. “The advances in reading have been amazing,” Tara Carter told Fox News. Carter pulled three of her kids – a kindergartner and twin first-graders –…

North Carolina just elected its newest U.S. senator in businessman, former U.S. representative and homeschool father Ted Budd. But when it came to persuading voters, Budd received help from a group of nearly 90 homeschool students who are part of Generation Joshua, a youth outreach branch of the Home School Legal Defense Association. The youth program…

(The Center Square) – School choice options in Ohio could expand to nearly every student if a new bill works its way quickly through the Ohio Legislature during the lame duck session. Senate Bill 368, introduced by Sen. Sandra O’Brien, R-Rome, earlier this week, would eliminate income thresholds currently attached to the state’s school voucher program and…

It’s never too late to pull your children from public school – even in December and beyond. That’s what Angie Hoffman, founder of The Hearth Room Schoolhouse in Kansas City, Missouri, says to families who may feel overwhelmed about a mid-year withdrawal. Her Christian Montessori school has part-time and full-time enrollment options, and she says most…

Child Protective Services officials in Kentucky have paid $515,000 to a homeschool family to settle a court case involving a strip-search of all six children in their home.  The settlement comes five years after a CPS investigator and sheriff’s deputy subjected the children of Josiah and Holly Curry to a harrowing strip-search in 2017 after threatening…

(The Sentinel) – K-12 schools in Kansas have lost more than 10,000 students since the beginning of the pandemic, and homeschooling registrations have more than tripled during that period. Parents, concerned with issues such as safety, curriculum, regulations, and declining student achievement, are pulling their children out of public schools and taking on the responsibility and challenge…