HOW MANY PEOPLE HOME EDUCATE?
Nobody knows for sure, but a researcher estimated 350,000 in the early 1990’s and the Federal Department of Education Statistics put the number at 850,00 for 1999. Estimates for 2006 go well over a 2.5 million children being homeschooled. Not all states require homeschoolers to register with a central location, so not all states are able to count or even to estimate the number of homeschoolers. In states where such figures are available, it is clear that the number of homeschoolers has grown substantially over the past ten or fifteen years.
