1+ week, 6+ day ago  (602+ words) Democrats have rewritten their last remaining homeschooling bill in an effort to make the legislation palatable enough to clear the House. The rewrite also drops language allowing homeschooled students to take up to two classes in public schools and participate…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (848+ words) In the wake of a third death of a student who had been withdrawn from public school, lawmakers are revising legislation that would increase oversight for homeschooled families. There is no data confirming the total number of homeschoolers in Connecticut,…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (858+ words) Christina Ghio was endorsed Wednesday by the House of Representatives as the state's child advocate in an unexpectedly partisan vote that reflected deep divisions in the General Assembly over regulating homeschooling. Ghio's testimony in support of a controversial homeschool oversight…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago  (102+ words) Hartford Courant Homeschooling parents should support the bill seeking reforms. I am deeply saddened by the lack of empathy protesting homeschooling parents and their advocates have for the children that have been hidden and abused under this education model. I…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (151+ words) Multiple Newtown schools were delayed in dismissing on Wednesday as police searched for two people who allegedly fled from a crash on Interstate 84. The search took place shortly before 1: 30 p. m. when the Newtown Police Department was contacted by Connecticut State Police…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (414+ words) The state legislature's Appropriations Committee advanced a priority bill Monday without a key provision on homeschooling, two weeks after authorities arrested the father of a child who died after leaving public school " the second such death reported in the last…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (157+ words) The most cost-effective and lease-controversial means to protect homeschool kids is a mandatory once/semester virtual visit with a school nurse. This visit would reveal student general health, both physical and mental, including last visits with a doctor and dentist....

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (596+ words) A bill designed to bolster parents" rights to know what"s being taught in their children"s classroom has teachers worrying that the action would result in their lesson plans being policed and teachers being unfairly targeted. The Education Committee…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1790+ words) Connecticut's 2025 legislative session ended in early June with no resolution on whether, or how, the state should regulate homeschooling. In the months since, a working group convened to consider the issue, met twice and disbanded. Current state law governing homeschooling…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (855+ words) The committee vote on increasing oversight on Connecticut homeschool families brought more fireworks Wednesday over the controversial topic and passed narrowly after some votes were changed. Rep. Jennifer Leeper, co-chair of the Education Committee, said House Bill 5468 is intended to…...