{"id":5118,"date":"2005-06-17T16:25:41","date_gmt":"2005-06-17T16:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=5118"},"modified":"2005-06-17T16:25:41","modified_gmt":"2005-06-17T16:25:41","slug":"good-news-in-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=5118","title":{"rendered":"GOOD NEWS IN VIRGINIA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shay Seaborne forwarded a link<\/a> to a piece describing how Prince William County (VA) educrats plan to relent on their extra-legal “approval before removal” policy.<\/p>\n

Some home-schooling parents in Prince William County have been decrying what they deem an “approval before removal” policy for years. That may change if the Prince William County Public School Board changes its regulation at its meeting next week.<\/p>\n

“What it does was — we were putting an extra burden on home-school parents that the law doesn’t require,” said School Board member Donald Richardson.<\/p>\n

The proposed regulation states that parents who choose to remove their children from school after the school year has begun must notify the superintendent of their intention to home-school within five days — a change from the current “as soon as practicable” wording. The proposed change would also eliminate the requirement that parents must be deemed compliant by the superintendent before they can begin home instruction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In her email, Shay writes:<\/p>\n

“The reporter is a little confused about the regulation change, but otherwise did a good job of reporting. This success is the result of a year’s worth of work by a grassroots coalition of local homeschoolers who made coordinated actions including letter writing and speaking, as well as working with the school board. We are not 100% happy with the new regulation, but feel it is 30 steps in the right direction, and we are confident that we can continue to work with the school division to address their concerns and better align the regulation with state law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Good deal. Never let the perfect be the enemy of the merely good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shay Seaborne forwarded a link to a piece describing how Prince William County (VA) educrats plan to relent on their extra-legal “approval before removal” policy. Some home-schooling parents in Prince William County have been decrying what they deem an “approval before removal” policy for years. That may change if the Prince William County Public School […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}