My friend @AngelaRWatson did a phenomenal job fielding questions and sharing a wealth of knowledge on #homeschooling on @cspanwj!

TLDR: Perhaps surprisingly, and contrary to some narratives, per pupil resources increased for districts with declining enrollments and decreased for districts with growing enrollments over 1-, 4-, and 20-year intervals. Find our @AnnenbergInst paper here:

Over 1-, 4-, and 20-year intervals, net funds and total capital outlay per pupil increased for districts with declining enrollments and decreased for districts with growing enrollments.

Over 1-, 4-, and 20-year intervals, other staff, aides, and counselors per 100 students increased for districts with declining enrollments and decreased for districts with growing enrollments.

Over 1-, 4-, and 20-year intervals, total staff, teachers, and administrators per 100 students increased for districts with declining enrollments and decreased for districts with growing enrollments.

Over 1-, 4-, and 20-year intervals, per pupil total expenditures and total current expenditures increased for districts with declining enrollments and decreased for districts with growing enrollments (no adverse effects on salary and benefits per staff).

Over 1-, 4-, and 20-year intervals, per pupil local and federal revenues increased for districts with declining enrollments and decreased for districts with growing enrollments (1- and 4-year for state revenues).

Policymakers and educators are concerned about what declining public school enrollments will mean for students in those districts. Ben Scafidi and I look at the fiscal and resource effects of enrollment changes. 🧵of findings

RT @JHUhomeschool: Report: "Who Homeschools, Really?" ➡️ @AngelaRWatson @hmatthewlee. Article: "Who Homeschools? (I….

@edchoice @HSLDA @DonnellySpeaks @ntlschoolchoice @pauldiperna.

“Critics of home-schooling cannot have it both ways. The movement cannot be both ‘fast ballooning and politically forceful,’ as the article puts it, and at the same time so fringe that it deserves our scorn and derision.”.

Earlier this week, the NYT ran what I thought was a pretty lopsided article on #homeschooling. Here’s my letter to the editor.

Find the blog here:

Find the report here:

Homeschooling families also engage in a significant amount of sector "mixing." Among households with at least one homeschooler, roughly a third sent another child to a district public school, 13% to a private school, and 9% to a charter school.

Flawed stereotypes about #homeschooling will yield flawed policy. While it may be true that political conservatives are slightly overrepresented, plenty of moderates and liberals choose to homeschool. In fact, we find 1 in 4 homeschooling parents ID's as a liberal Democrat!

New @edchoice report and blog with @AngelaRWatson! We survey a nationally representative sample to answer -- who are the homeschoolers?. You may be surprised by who they are.

RT @pauldiperna: New @edchoice blog post from @AngelaRWatson and Matt Lee, posting in tandem with their new working paper: "Who Homeschools….

RT @pauldiperna: We've just posted a new working paper by @AngelaRWatson and Matt Lee. If you are interested in the data and trends on hom….

RT @edchoice: Families who choose to homeschool mirror the diversity of the American population. In this blog, authors @AngelaRWatson and @….