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… President and CEO Michael Farris, founded HSLDA in 1983 to protect the right of families to provide personalized, … the legislature after HSLDA’s founding. He joined the organization full time in 1987, serving as its vice president … a homeschooling family. Has the pandemic helped parents better understand at-home education? MS: I hate this COVID …

… their moms — mostly single women, grateful for somewhere to leave their children during the long day’s work ahead. Two … this, prods the 60-or-so boys and girls before him to better warbling. “On this next one,” he says, “lift your … Academy would offer an alternative. With a nonprofit organization, “Step Up for Students,” providing full …

… Foundation and Students for Life of America sought to paint a similar mural outside a Planned Parenthood … for the project. But when the two groups gathered to create the message, police officers informed them that … "Gov. Brown’s personal preference for public over private education does not permit her to discriminate against …

… I grew up doing concrete with him.” Her job, she says, was to shovel wet cement into a wheelbarrow, push it to wherever the cement needed dumping, then run back for … concrete trucks were always impressed. They’d say, ‘She’s better than all the guys out here.’” A good work ethic aside, …

… Jessica and the children borrowed a truck and headed down to a park near their rural Oregon home for a little kayaking … park bordered a reservoir. As they carried the kayaks down to the water, a man approached Jessica and her daughter, … “accept” or “not accept”? That turned out to be a question better asked of the government officials themselves. “If you …

… L ike most of us, Jean Marie Davis knows enough not to pick up hitchhikers. Unlike some of us, she knows a nudge … feels one. A few months ago, she felt one.  She was headed to work when she felt like grabbing something to eat. The … They talked. Jean Marie shared her story. “There's a better way,” Phyllis finally told her gently, remembering …

… You might think a commitment to protecting unborn life would be an asset for a midwife. In … almost ended my career before it began. I had wanted to be a midwife since I was in my late teens and started to explore university courses. Pregnancy and childbirth were …

… enjoys bringing the cows buckets of something that seems to do for them what catnip does for the feline set. Most of … a clean glass case half as long as Lydia’s bed, listening to her murmured opinions and secrets and the music she coaxes … an authority on them. “I look at the color of their throat to see if they’re male or female,” she says. “The females, …