Home-schooling

While each state has different regulations for homeschooling, Illinois is among a small minority that places virtually no rules on parents who homeschool their children.

Missouri public schools enroll thousands of fewer students compared to before the pandemic, in part, because of a homeschooling boom and declining birth rates.

Legislation filed by Missouri Sen. Ben Brown, a Republican from Washington, would also roll back state oversight. Sen. Maggie Nurrenbern, a Democrat from Kansas City, said she is concerned about “simply not knowing which students are being homeschooled.”

Missouri’s tax-credit-funded scholarship program will gain a new partner in one of the state’s largest public education institutions.

A pair of bills were debated by the Senate education and workforce development committee aimed at expanding access to activities like sports and clubs to students who are homeschooled.

More Black parents in the U.S. and Missouri are choosing to teach their kids on their own terms. In this three-episode limited podcast, St. Louis Public Radio’s Marissanne Lewis-Thompson explores why more Black families are choosing to homeschool.

More Black parents in the U.S. and Missouri are choosing to teach their kids on their own terms. This new podcast from St. Louis Public Radio explores why Black families in the St. Louis region are choosing to home-school, how they are managing to do it and what the kids think about it.

School administrators are trying to figure out just what all the 5-year-olds are up to, as many did not show up — or log on — for the first day of school.

On a late summer morning, when most 6-year-olds have returned to the classroom, Benjamin Yates knelt on a blue mat in the living room of his family's home…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, May 14, 2009 - Lulli Akin -- the wife of U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, R-Town and Country -- is helping to…