More and more parents across the United States are homeschooling their children.
The COVID-19 national emergency might be over, but parents’ desire to continue homeschooling is holding strong. That’s the key takeaway from the latest Household Pulse Survey (HPS) published by the U.S. Census Bureau. The data have notable limitations, including small sample sizes for subpopulations, but provide useful estimates of real-time national and state-level trends in K-12 education. These HPS figures based on surveys conducted from Dec. 2022 to May 2023 can be explored with Reason Foundation’s latest data tool found here.
I talked to a mom named Heather from Mid-Michigan about why she is homeschooling her child.
Watch the interview below: