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 DEPARTMENTS | "The waiting game" March 22, 2008

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Damian Dovarganes/AP

Homeschool ban

A California appeals court has snatched away the right of tens of thousands of Californians to school their children at home. According to a Feb. 28 ruling, it is illegal for parents without a state teaching credential to homeschool their kids.

"Parents do not have a constitutional right to homeschool their children," 2nd District Court of Appeals Justice H. Walter Croskey, 75, wrote in a decision reversing a lower court ruling that upheld homeschooling as constitutional. Re: Rachel L. involves the Long family of Los Angeles, whose eight children are or have been enrolled in Sunland Christian School, a private homeschooling program.

About 166,000 students in California are homeschooled. The court refused to stay Croskey's opinion pending appeal. That means the ruling is immediately binding, said Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute, the Sacramento public-interest law firm that will represent the Longs and Sunland before the California Supreme Court, which could overturn the ruling.

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