Classroom in the Kitchen: Home education an increasingly popular alternative

Chris Etheridge of The Register-Mail writes about homeschooling in Illinois and highlights some interesting statistics:

- 1,096,000: Estimated number of homeschool students in the U.S. in 2003.
- 98,000: Number of kindergarten students homeschooled in 2003, the largest of any grade level.
- 77: Percent of homeschooled students in 2003 who were white, up 2 percent from 1999. (61 percent of public school students were white.)
- 54: Percent of homeschool families that made less than $50,000 in 2003.
- 445,000: Number of homeschooled students in southern states in 2003, the most of any region of the country.
- 48: Percent of homeschool students in the equivalent of elementary school (K-5), the same percentage as public schools.

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