More Texans are turning to home schooling

Houston Chronicle: “Over the past five years, the number of Texans opting to home school has grown about 20 percent to an estimated 120,000 families and 300,000 children, according to the Texas Home School Coalition. ‘The economy does have an impact on folks,’ said Tim Lambert, president of the coalition. ‘We saw families last year who had their kids in a private school, times were tough and they couldn’t afford to do that anymore, but they didn’t want to put them in a public school.’”