Friday, November 24, 2006

Home education - Officials hit home-school policy (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)


Officials hit home-school policy (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)
WORCESTER - The chairman of the School Committee's program development committee last night called "very shortsighted" a policy that designates all home-schooled students who decide to attend public high school as freshmen without consideration for age or achievement.

Extra B14bn for schooling over four years (Bangkok Post)
The cabinet and the Budget Bureau will inject an additional 14 billion baht into the 12 years of free education scheme over the next four fiscal years.

Students hunt down lessons of history in Monroe museum (The Houma Courier)
Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and home-schoolers from the Christian Homeschool Association went on a scavenger hunt to discover history at the Aviation and Military History Museum in Monroe.