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Special Education and School Choice: Not Great Choices, If Any

July 24, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

Years of school reforms have stripped public schools of disability services, creating problems for parents (See Carl Peterson’s recent Exterminating Special Education). Parents may turn to charter, parochial or private schools, online learning, or homeschooling, only to find choices lacking, or the school may not want their child, leaving parents in the lurch. Charter Schools […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: charter schools, homeschool, Online Instruction, Parochial Schools, private schools, School Choice, special education

Common Core State Standards–Private School and Homeschool–Here, There and EVERYWHERE

October 17, 2013 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

Many parents think if they put their children in private school or homeschool they will all be able to hide from the Common Core State Standards. Sorry folks. David Coleman, who said no cares about your student’s narrative writing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu6lin88YXU, wasn’t only the architect of the standards, he moved over to become president of the […]

Filed Under: Common Core Tagged With: Common Core, homeschool, private school

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