California Appeals Court Upholds Parents Need Not be Credentialed to Homeschool Children
"A three-judge panel overturned a lower-court order in February that had created an uproar among homeschooling parents when it required the credentialing."
(California)—A California appeals court this morning affirmed the right of parents who don't have a teaching credential to educate their children at home. According to a Mercury News report, a three-judge panel overturned a lower-court order that required homeschool parents be credentialed and ruled that individual parents, like private schools, are exempt from the requirement that those who teach children be credentialed by the state.
"It is a very good decision and definitely a victory for homeschooling families in the state," said Damien Schiff of the Pacific Legal Foundation in Sacramento, which had filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of a Sacramento couple who teach their 7-year-old at home.
