Subject: Homeschooling

• Warehousing Minority Kids in Atlanta and Houston

  March 20, 2008

• 180 Days in the Hole

  HISD insists that kids sent to its alternative school should spend an entire year there, no matter what. What a crock.

  April 19, 2001

• Learning How to Survive (at) CEP

  HISD and a paid trustee get entangled in the spreading empire of a private firm touting safe alternative schools for troubled kids. So why are some students and parents so scared?

  May 31, 2001

• Backing Off

  HISD cuts $2 million from CEP's lucrative deal and adds more controls.

  November 8, 2001

• Letters

  April 17, 1997

• Letters

  May 8, 1997

• Looking for Laura

  March 12, 1998

• Letters to the Editor

  May 4, 2000

• Opt In, Opt Out

  HISD continues to send students to CEP. Whether they go there, stay there or return successfully to their home school is anyone's guess.

  October 5, 2006

• Mind Reading

  Is Yvette Lacobie really a terrorist? Did legislators really mean to kick kids out for a butter knife? Is zero tolerance really stupid? (No, maybe and yes.)

  February 17, 2005

• The Canons of Courting

  Or, eight simple rules for dating my teenage daughter

  January 27, 2005

• KISD Off

  Klein students are on a fast track to expulsion, thanks to a district that's figured a way to get someone else to pick up the tab for alternative education

  September 30, 2004

• Teen Spleen

  Talking smack wreaks high school havoc in Mean Girls

  April 29, 2004

• Million-Dollar Babies

  Some CEP students have been locked in for years

  June 27, 2002

• But Who's Counting?

  Thousands of students disappear from our schools yearly, but the TEA insists they're not dropouts

  October 18, 2001

• Letting Go

  HISD settles with parents over CEP punishments

  August 23, 2001

• Letters

  A Wave of Laughter, Strip Search Horrors, Fine Frye

  July 19, 2001

• Emily Conner

  A "Learning How to Survive (at) CEP" sidebar

  May 31, 2001

• School's Out Forever

  "Unschoolers" like Holly Furgason don't believe in public education. They don't even believe in teachers. They believe in the ability of their children to teach themselves. Will the law catch up with them?

  April 20, 2000

• Learn Valuable Skills At Home!! Through HISD!!!

  HISD is expanding its at-home learning program, whereby kids from across the state (mostly home-schoolers) can get a tuition-free educational curriculum monitored by a certified teacher via computer and phone.The district partners with the Texas Connections Academy to offer the program, which is the only one of its kind in the state, HISD spokesman Norm Uhl tells Hair Balls.The release from the district says the program, which began with 100 kids in grades three through eight, will expand to 1,0

  June 24, 2009