Homeschooling should be protected

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Homeschooling should be protected
“A growing number of American families are choosing to homeschool their children,” report Heritage education experts Dan Lips and Evan Feinberg. Up to two million children are education at home, according to some estimates.

The increasing popularity of homeschooling saves taxpayers money, Lips and Feinberg note in their thorough analysis. They note that the practice saves “between $4.4 billion and $9.9 billion in instructional costs each year.”

Homeschooling seems to do well by participating students, they continue, so “federal and state policymakers should protect all families’ right to educate their children at home and implement policies to enable more families to homeschool their children in the future.” They propose a series of policies to advance this goal, including reforms to the tax code and avoidance of regulations that would stifle homeschooling.