Education Committee excludes homeschoolers from special needs tax credit bill
The House Education Committee this week approved changes to a tax credit bill that would prevent special needs homeschoolers from qualifying for a benefit worth as much as $6000 per year.
Though neither the House nor the Senate versions of the bill specifically mentioned homeschooling, the wording of the proposal would have allowed home educators to apply because N.C. law considers them a form of nonpublic school. The committee's changes will disqualify homeschoolers from participating in the program if it passes.
The bill has enjoyed bipartisan support in the legislature, but the state teachers' lobby, the N.C. Association of Educators, has voiced strong opposition. (Rocky Mount Telegram, 6/25/08)
References: House Bill 388 (version 1) = Senate Bill 2059 (version 1)
NCHE officer says violent acts not related and not about homeschooling
Kay Bindrim, regional director for North Carolinians for Home Education, told the Rocky Mount Telegram that the recent trial and conviction of Lynn Paddock in Johnston County was "clearly a child abuse case and not a home school case."
A second death, a 13-year-old who was being homeschooled out of compliance with the law, occurred in Edgecombe County this month. "I don't see how the two go together," Bindrim said. Bindrim is president of the Christian Homeschool Association of Rocky Mount. (See related article below). (Rocky Mount Telegram, 6/29/08)
SCHOLARSHIPS
Morgan Gray Scholarship awarded to China Grove homeschooler
Bryson Nesbitt of China Grove has been selected to receive the Morgan R. Gray Scholarship, worth $825. The scholarship for Rowan County homeschoolers was founded in memory of Morgan Gray, an 11-year-old homeschooler who was killed in an auto accident in 2001. Bryson will be attending Catawba College this fall. (Salisbury Post, 6/25/08)
PEOPLE
Homeschooling growing for a variety of reasons in Rocky Mount
A positive story in the Rocky Mount Telegraph, including NCHE's Kay and Tommy Bindrim and several other homeschooling families in the area. (Rocky Mount Telegraph, 6/29/08)
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