by Debbie Mason | Mar 17, 2021 | Spring 2021, GREENHOUSE
Spring 2021/Spencer Mason Is there an imminent threat to parents’ rights to homeschool their children in North Carolina? The short answer is no. In the US, homeschool laws are determined by the state, not the federal government. Therefore, the primary place where...
by Matthew McDill | Oct 29, 2019 | Spring 2019, GREENHOUSE
Fall 2019 / Brenda Brown Not many of us today worry when we are at the park with our children or shopping for groceries in the middle of the day that we are going to be questioned about why our children are not in school. We don’t live in fear that a truancy officer...
by Spencer Mason | Oct 5, 2017 | NCHE White Paper, News
Is dual enrollment in both homeschool and public school legal? It has become fairly common for homeschools to receive solicitations from local school districts offering classes on the Internet or in the classroom. Many school districts are stating that homeschool...
by Spencer Mason | Sep 13, 2017 | GREENHOUSE, Fall 2017
Fall 2017 / by Spencer Mason The NC Division for Non-Public Education (DNPE) has implemented a major change in their school database that affects homeschools. This change–to a real-time database–will make a dramatic improvement in the efficiency of DNPE...
by Spencer Mason | Nov 2, 2016 | Fall 2016, GREENHOUSE
2 Nov 2016 When I arrived at the legislative building early on a Tuesday morning, I hadn’t known anything of what I was going to do, but when one is suited up and going into an important place, it is hard to feel like anything could be wrong. Even though I had...
