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Q. How many home
schoolers are there nationwide?
A. In a study published in 1997, Dr. Brian Ray of the National Home Education Research
Institute estimated that there were 1.23 million children home schooled in America during
the 1996-1997 school year. Home schooling has grown at about 15% per year since 1990.
With this growth rate in consideration HSLDA estimates there are about 1.5 million
children home schooling in the 1997-1998 school year. In March of 1997 a Wall Street
Journal/NBC News poll found that 6% of parents “Home-schooled, keeping [their] child
out of school and teaching the child at home.”
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Q. Why do parents
decide to home educate their children?
A. Most parents decide to home school because they feel they can provide a better
education for their children than public schools or private schools offer. The rampant
problems of drugs, crime, violence, teen pregnancy, and sexually transmitted diseases in
our nation’s schools are compelling parents to find alternative learning environments
free from these social ills. Home schooling allows parents to promote good academics,
common sense morality, and family unity. |
| Q. Is home
schooling legal in all 50 states? |
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A. Yes. Each state has its own statutes, court decisions, or regulations that pertain to
home schooling. (For more information on a particular state, please contact HSLDA.) |
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Q. What are some of the more restrictive states for home schooling? |
| A. The battlegrounds shift around the nation. Over the years we have faced fierce or
multiple legal conflicts in South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Virginia, Iowa,
Tennessee, New York, Rhode Island, and North Dakota just to name a few. |
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Alliance for
Parental Involvement in Education
ALLPIE is a nonprofit organization which assists and encourages parental
involvement in education, wherever that education takes place: in public school, in
private school, or at home.
American
Homeschool Association (AHA)
The American Homeschool Association (AHA) is a free service organization
supporting the continued growth of the homeschooling movement by providing communications
and networking for homeschooling families and anyone interested in home education.
Catholic Home
School Network of America. CHSNA acts on behalf of Catholics who want to freely
exercise their God-given rights as primary educators of their children at home. Has a
quarterly newsletter, "The Domestic Church", represent your interests with
diocesan officials and church and/or church-related organizations and more. Annual fee is
$15.00.
Home
Educator's Network, Inc. This non-profit organization provides educational support
for parents, students, and educators. Program covers from zero months to grade 12. Also
features second chance programs for learning disabled, pre-mature motherhood and persons
whose education has been interrupted by illness or accident or some other unforeseen
occurrence.
Homeschoolers' Organizations List
A guide to finding local, regional and national groups.
Home School Legal
Defense Association
A non-profit advocacy organization established to defend and advance the
constitutional right of parents to
 direct the
education of their children and to protect family freedoms. Through annual memberships,
HSLDA is tens of thousands of families united in service together, providing a strong
voice when and where needed.
National Foundation
for Gifted and Creative Children
The National Foundation for Gifted and Creative Children was formed over 30 years
ago. The main goal of The Foundation was to get much needed information to the parents of
gifted children. The National Foundation for Gifted and Creative Children is a non-profit,
non-sectarian, organization.
National
Homeschool Association
The National Homeschool Association exists to advocate individual choice and
freedom in education, to serve those families who choose to homeschool, and to inform the
general public about home education.
National
Newsletter: Home School Headlines
Home School Headlines is crammed full of vital, stimulating information and
encouragement for new and veteran homeschoolers alike. Our goal is to empower
homeschoolers to confidently make informed decisions for their families. Email: homesh@cvn.net. Phone 717-528-8850.
National Private
Schools Association Group
We at NPSAG, believe that our Accreditation Alliance provides a Quick, Easy and
Affordable route to Private School Accreditation without jumping through endless hoops. We
seek to preserve the uniqueness of the Individual Private School and its Educational
Program and promote the notion of Voluntary Participation in the Accreditation Process,
which publicly demonstrates the Private Schools commitment to the Educational Profession,
through an independent third party, without Government interference.
Native
American Homeschool Association Web Site
We lose our culture a little at a time through forced policies of assimilation and
cultural genocide. More and more we see families of the Christian right withdrawing their
Children from public schools to instill within their children not only a desire to learn
to learn, but also to instill within their children a sense of their own values. As
parents, communities, tribes, and Nations of the original people of this continent, and
also the original homeschoolers of this land, we can learn a lot from the political
structures and advances of the Christian homeschooling movement.
N.H.E.R.I.
The mission of NHERI is three-fold; 1) to produce high-quality research on home
education, 2) to serve as a clearinghouse of research for home educators, researchers,
policy makers, and the media and 3) to educate the public concerning the findings of all
such research. N.H.E.R.I. was founded by Dr. Brian Ray, who has been the editor of the
journal Home School Researcher since 1985.
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