Confusion over California's insistence that home-schooling is illegal has prompted the state's superintendent of public instruction to call on lawmakers for help.
The development comes as a local district enforcer of the state's mandatory school attendance statute says it plans to visit families who appear to be violating the law by teaching their children without a credential.
Citing a barrage of angry responses from home-school advocates, Superintendent Delaine Eastin said in an Aug. 27 letter to state legislators that "false charges" and "misinformation" leveled at her "make me believe that the situation cries out for a legislative solution."
WorldNetDaily reported Aug. 19 that Eastin's office issued a memo in July stating that parents without a teaching credential who home-school their children are "operating outside the law."
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