Parents, attorneys to file for rehearing from state courts
With homeschooling advocates in the Antelope Valley and elsewhere criticizing a recent appellate http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3709 by the California Supreme Court.
The http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=416, representing the Christian school whose home study courses are used by the Lynwood couple cited in the Feb. 28 2nd District Court of Appeal ruling, will file motions today asking for a rehearing by the same appellate panel that issued the original ruling.
“Unless the Court of Appeal hears the case … we’ll go to the California Supreme Court,” said Kevin Snider, who is chief counsel for the nonprofit civil rights firm, which specializes in First Amendment and religious-rights cases.
Statewide, an estimated 250,000 students are home-schooled, according to the Virginia-based Home School Legal Defense Association, which supports a review of the case by the California Supreme Court.”The law in California, as interpreted by HSLDA and the (California Department of Education), works very well for all home-schoolers,” said HSLDA spokesman Ian Slatter. “It allowed families to form private schools in their home.”
Public and private schools in the Antelope Valley offer programs to help parents teach their children at home, but there are no authoritative numbers for how many area children are homeschooled.
Until now, California has allowed homeschooling if parents filed paperwork to establish themselves as small, private schools; hired a credentialed tutor; or enrolled their children in an independent study program run by an established school while teaching the children at home.
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