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By LaTasha James
Capital News Service
RICHMOND — How educated must parents be to homeschool their children? In Virginia, they should be required only to have a high school diploma, legislators say.
Over Gov. Mark Warner’s objections, the General Assembly has reaffirmed its support for a bill that would allow parents with only a high school diploma to home-school their children without a stateapproved curriculum.
Warner had proposed amending the bill. He wanted to require such parents to meet the score required for beginning teachers on the Praxis or SAT tests, or to score above the 50th percentile on any other test approved by the Virginia Department of Education. (Praxis is an exam most states use to license teachers; the SAT is a college entrance exam.)
But during its one-day “veto session” last month, the House of Delegates voted 37-62 to reject Warner’s amendment to
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