| Home Schooling
Continues to Grow
A growing number of U.S. students receive their education
through home schooling. About 1.1 million students were home
schooled in the U. S. in the spring of 2003, an increase
from an estimated 850,000 in the spring of 1999. In
addition, the estimated home schooling rate -- the
percentage of the school-age population that was being home
schooled -- increased from 1.7 percent in 1999 to 2.2
percent in 2003.1
Protections for Private and Home Schools
No Child Left Behind has provisions that contain important
protections for private and home schools, including that
nothing in the law shall be construed to: (a) affect any
private school that does not receive funds or services under
NCLB; (b) affect a home school; (c) permit, allow,
encourage, or authorize any Federal control over any aspect
of a private, religious, or home school; or (d) require any
SEA or LEA to mandate, direct, or control the curriculum of
a private or home school.
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