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Times Free Press reports on “TSSAA’s tepid gesture to home-schoolers”
Via the Times Free Press: More than 50,000 children in Tennessee are home-schooled, according to the Home School Legal Defense Association. Their parents save taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars each year by opting to handle their
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TSSAA opens gate for homeschooled athletes
By Chip Cirillo, The Tennessean, Dec. 9 Some home-schooled students will be eligible to try out for Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association teams next year. The state association’s Legislative Council approved a bylaw on Wednesday that will make that possible. The students must meet a
Times Free Press Article: Homeschooling goes mainstream
The Chattanooga Times Free Press has an online article covering area homeschooling: “Home schooling goes mainstream.”
Jefferson Davis, Lafayette figure in winning history fair entries
By Mary Lynn Johnson Two Signal Mountain home school students, Grace Hughbanks, a senior, and Caitlyn Sudkamp, a junior, recently competed in the David H. Gray Regional History Fair in Chattanooga and the Tennessee History Day held in Nashville, winning the opportunity to compete at the 2009 National
Bredesen signs diploma bill
Tennessee law has changed to end practices of discrimination against homeschool diplomas awarded by so-called umbrella schools, which home educators in the state gather under to keep from getting rained on by state bureaucracy. State-licensed day care centers and police departments had turned up their
Library urges homeschoolers to chase Tennessee history
The Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library, through a $50,000 grant, has developed a collection of Tennessee History materials. As part of the Learning Resource Center, the primary purpose of this initiative is to provide educational sources for home-school parents, teachers, students and individual
Rally Day 2009! Making state government come to life!
Rally Day event March 24 gives chance for students to converse with legislators As we come to this milestone in the history of THEA, our 25th anniversary of working together with and for Tennessee’s home educating families, we ask you to join with us for our Capitol Hill Rally & Reception Day
Bandow speaks on financial crisis, global trade, and economic freedom
A daylong economic conference featuring noted free market defender Doug Bandow and Greg Rehmke of Foundation for Economic Education is being held in Cleveland Thursday, Feb. 5, from 9 a.m. To 4:30 p.m. The No Comments • Read this story »
Poindexter open to homeschoolers
Poindexter Library houses 30,000 book and video volumes including 7,600 e-books, 2,000 Juvenile titles, and 4,600 videos. In addition, the library also has 24,000+ cassette tapes and CDs. Membership in the library is also a conduit for access to the Tennessee Electronic Library database. These databases
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