Alabama Home Schooled and Private Schooled Students Don't Want to Live in This Village of Government Regulations
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| The State Board tried to seal the fate of home and private school students to be under public regulations. |
We had a major alert for Alabama home schooled and private schooled students a few days ago. The state commissioner of education decided to create new departments and regulations for those students outside the public education system. These regulations included having to use state certified teachers, the same state curriculum (which is now aligned to Common Core standards) and register with the state. Failure to register do so would prohibit students from attending a 2 or 4 year university.
We have an update reporting the halting of this proposed educational direction in Alabama. It would have taken the rights of citizens/private institutions to educate students as they see fit. Thanks to our readers who supplied these comments and alerted us to recent developments:
ALSDE has issued a response here. 36review has a link to the letter in its post "ALSDE Update: Changes on Hold"
http://the36review.com/
Basically, they've put the new regs on "hold" but have "concluded that not only do the