Black Families Integral in Homeschooling Movement

Another media outlet has taken notice of the fastest growing segment of American homeschooling -- African-American homeschoolers.

"The numbers of black and white home-schoolers rose about a third from 1999 to 2003 to encompass about 1.3 percent of U.S. black students and 2.7 percent of whites.

Researchers say the number of black parents who are home schooling their children may now be growing even faster.

More than half the students who are home-schooled come from families with three or more children, and more than one-quarter from families making less than $25,000 in 2003, when the nation's median family income was $56,500.

More than half of home-schooled students came from families making between $25,000 and $75,000."

Read what else Leslie Fulbright of the San Francisco Chronicle reported on November 5, 2006 here.