The Rutland Herald ran a commentary today, by Paul Krugman, that began with the following imaginary scenario.
Suppose, for a moment, that the Heritage Foundation were to put out a press release attacking the liberal view that even children whose parents could afford to send them to private school should be entitled to free government-run education.
They’d [...]
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Still super pissed off extremely unhappy about having to prove that I am educating my children because it takes me so long to get all of the paperwork together with three kids under foot, I have one more post about homeschooling laws for you.
I just learned that New Jersey does not require anything from homeschooling [...]
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Since it is the unnecessarily burdensome annual reporting process the state requires for homeschooling that is keeping me from dazzling you all with my political insights, I figured that now is as good a time as any for one of my semi-annual rants against homeschooling laws.
A couple of weekends ago, my husband and I [...]
I’m sorry for the link posting, but I am yet again (what is this the tenth time this season?) battling a stinking cold.
Wondering what the legislature has done to fix education spending (and property taxes) this session - one of their campaign promises?
Vermont Tiger has the low down and it’s not pretty.
As one of my [...]
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There is a story in the Free Press this morning about the legislative hearings on property tax.
Jim Stevens, 67, is retired, but works two part-time jobs as a mail carrier and bus driver to supplement his retirement income. He said he and his wife live on less than $24,000 a year in a home they [...]
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This post has a little something for everyone - a homeschool tie-in, a local tie-in, and a national tie-in, so I am posting it on She’s Right (my political blog) and Crafty Mama’s Homeschool (my homeschooling/crafting blog).
Yesterday, I was reading one of my favorite homeschool blogs, Why Homeschool, and they had a link to an [...]
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