Tax plans for School Choice in Congress
Requirements for Home Schooling in Maine
Maine Charter Schools: 10 schools authorized
Testing – A statement of assurance that indicates that the home instruction program will include an annual assessment of the student’s academic progress using one of the types of assessment in accordance with existing regulations. To include:
i. a standardized achievement test; or
ii. a test developed by the school officials of the administrative unit in which the student resides; or
iii. a review and acceptance of the student’s progress by an identified individual who holds a current Maine teacher’s certificate; or
iv. a review and acceptance of the student’s progress based on, but not limited to, a presentation of an educational portfolio of the student to a local area homeschooling support group whose membership for this purpose includes a currently certified Maine teach or administrator; or
v. a review and acceptance of the student’s progress by a local advisory board selected by the superintendent of the administrative unit in which the student resides.
Review of taking the GED. TL;DR it is HARD
Link to a practice exam. 1169 page PDF.
New York Times interactive display of School Outcomes
Earlier post on the topic, here
Resources for comparing schools:
Here and
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.[1][5]
Elon Musk’s Home School — and here
Spending on education vs GDP
United States GDP on education 5.6% Finland 6.8% Wikipedia here