South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in CBN News A Christian school in Germany is challenging the country’s “restrictive educational system” after government officials barred them from opening more schools. The Association for Decentralized Learning, which offers both virtual and home education programs, has filed a lawsuit at the European Court of Human Rights […]
ChristianView Network yesterday [see YouTube clip at bottom of page] asked the Parliamentary Select Committee on Education to fix problems in the Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Bill that would grab power away from parents. The bill has drawn more public comment than any law since the Constitution. Parents’ backlash […]
This morning [Tuesday], the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Education agreed to a comprehensive public consultation process on the Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill (BELA Bill), proposed to be advertised from March 1, reports Philip Rosenthal of ChristianView Network The comprehensive law will affect every public school and home schooling family […]
Education of children is the responsibility of parents and not the state, says a new mini documentary Home Education: Anybody Can Do It made by Frontline Fellowship. Making a case for home schooling — especially for Christian families — the documentary makers invites parents to “explore the richness and wholesomeness […]
Media release by the ACDP ACDP MP Marie Sukers today called on the government to introduce a hybrid education system to facilitate the successful completion of the current academic year by all children. Noting an announcement by Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga, in which she has said that more […]
The Department of Education will be wasting money if it rushes ahead with its plans to promulgate the policy on home education which is flawed as a result of a failed consultation process, said ACDP MP Cheryllyn Dudley. There has been a misunderstanding between the DBE and home educators, who […]
South African Homeschooling organisations have accused the government of steam-rolling through a new policy on home education and a home schooling advocate foresees significant legal battles ahead over alleged serious legal shortcomings associated with the policy, says the Pestalozzi Trust (PT) in a press release. Despite a last-minute outcry by […]
The Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill (BELA Bill) comment deadline is tomorrow — November 10 2017 — but the ACDP has been told that the Department of Basic Education has promised that late submissions will be considered. SEE ANALYSIS OF BELA BILL BY PHILIP ROSENTHAL OF CHRISTIAN VIEW NETWORK ACDP […]
Homeschooling action groups in the Western Cape fear that the Government intends to introduce draconian anti-homeschooling legislation in draft national policy on home education that is due to be published in August. Cape Home Educators and the Pestalozzi Trust are concerned that the national policy will override gains that homeschooling […]
Originally published in Christiannews.net The Obama administration has decided to allow a Christian homeschooling family from Germany to remain in the country after initially battling the family in court as they sought asylum in the United States. Ewe and Hannelore Romeike have been battling the matter in the courts for several […]