For some reason, the story is just getting around about a California Court Ruling from February that would have banned, or at least severely restricted homeschooling. By now however, the ruling has been reversed...
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First-year student Chris Avenir is fighting charges of academic misconduct for helping run an online chemistry study group via Facebook last term, where 146 classmates swapped tips on homework questions that counted for 10 per cent of their mark.
The computer engineering student has been charged with one count of academic misconduct for helping run the group – called Dungeons/Mastering Chemistry Solutions after the popular Ryerson basement study room engineering students dub The Dungeon – and another 146 counts, one for each classmate who used the site.
Parents of the approximately 200,000 home-schooled children in California are reeling from the possibility that they may have to shutter their classrooms — and go back to school themselves — if they want to continue teaching their own kids. On Feb. 28, Judge H. Walter Croskey of the Second District Court of Appeals in Los Angeles ruled that children ages six to 18 may be taught only by credentialed teachers in public or private schools — or at home by Mom and Dad, but only if they have a teaching degree. Citing state law that goes back to the early 1950s, Croskey declared that "California courts have held that under provisions in the Education Code, parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children." Furthermore, the judge wrote, if instructors teach without credentials they will be subject to criminal action.
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For some reason, the story is just getting around about a California Court Ruling from February that would have banned, or at least severely restricted homeschooling. By now however, the ruling has been reversed...
Urging schools to make eMail archiving a "critical part" of their record-keeping activities, a leading educational technology advocacy group has come out with a new resource to help school leaders understand and comply with recent changes to federal laws governing data retention.
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