I largely salute the Obama administration’s approach to education although I don’t like the overly simplistic approach to teacher rating based on test scores. It’s just too simple and statistically meaningless.
I’m very curious if any of the states submissions for Race to the Top Funds included any meaningful effort to include innovations on education using a homeschooling model. The largest effort so far that I’m aware of in the public sector are the California public homeschool charter schools. And I quote:
In California, there are different types of charter schools. Some are run by school districts and they are “in school” charters. Then there are charter schools that are homeschool based. We have used this route for all the years we have been homeschooling. The homeschool based charter school provides a teacher once a month to collect attendance and work samples. They are also there to bounce ideas off of and place the purchase orders for curriculum, field trips and classes that the charter school offers. The funding offered by each charter school varies so interviewing each school is a must to see what they offer for the money provided. There is also a different rate for high school than for elementary which is considered K-8 for the purpose of funding. The constraints are no religious materials, you have to use their vendors, and testing is required by the school. Now I use “required” loosely since you can opt out of testing just by writing a letter stating you are opting your child out.
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