NCHSN Digest - 04/05/09

Items from N.C. Homeschool News this week:

Several bills of interest are moving through the N.C. General Assembly. Two bills would open public school sports to homeschooled students, although one would also open up the homeschool statute (4/2) ... the House Education Committee considered a move to lower the compulsory attendance age to six years old (4/2) ... and the fiscal analysis came out for a bill to give tax credits to new homeschoolers -- it doesn't include students already taught at home (3/29)

In other news, a homeschooling family won a $5000 contest for their local 4-H chapter (3/31) ... and a public school mom told a Wilmington TV station that homeschooling may be her daughter's last resort (4/4).

N.C. Homeschool News is updated throughout the week.