by Matthew McDill | Mar 26, 2021 | Webinars, Testing, Videos, Homeschool Law, NCHE Blog
The state of North Carolina requires homeschool parents to give their children a nationally standardized achievement test each year. In this video clip, you will hear Debbie Mason read the NC law that requires us to give such a test and explain what a nationally...
by Matthew McDill | Mar 16, 2021 | Homeschool Law, NCHE Blog
Update, March 24 There has been on movement on this bill since March 16. Original article: On March 15, 2021, Senators Chuck Edwards, Ralph Hise, and Vickie Sawyer filed Senate Bill 297, entitled “An Act to Create a Tax Credit for Home School Children.” This is a...
by Matthew McDill | Jan 8, 2021 | College, Graduation, High School, Teens, Homeschool Law, NCHE Blog
I’d like to tell you a story about what happened with one of my high school students that points to several important homeschooling principles: In NC, parents decide what is required for a student to graduate, not the state or any other organization. If your student...
by Matthew McDill | Nov 13, 2020 | War on Homeschooling, Freedom to Homeschool, NCHE Membership, Homeschool Law, NCHE Blog
We are part of a powerful, growing state and national homeschooling movement. And that was even before the coronavirus! Now more families than ever are homeschooling and benefiting from this life changing choice. Unfortunately, that means that those who oppose...
by WhitneyCrowell | Oct 19, 2020 | Testing, Homeschool Law, DNPE, NCHE Blog
by NCHE Guest Contributor Whitney Cranford Crowell Out of all the months of the year, October is perhaps the one most associated with the ghoulish and the ghostly. But no witch or goblin could ever strike fear into the hearts of new homeschoolers as much as our...
by Matthew McDill | Jul 22, 2020 | Freedom to Homeschool, Parental Rights, Homeschool Law, NCHE Blog, News
On July 20, 2020, Jane R. Wettach wrote an article for NC Policy Watch, As homeschooling grows, children need protection. She writes, “A new report from Duke Law School makes a modest proposal focused on the few homeschooled children whose educational needs are not...
