With the passage of a new law this summer mandating vaccines for schoolkids in California, home school advocates and organizations say they are seeing surging interest in off-campus education options that would exempt them from the requirement. “The word on the streets is that, yes, people are coming to home schooling,” said Sarah Ford, membership director for Sonoma County Homeschoolers Nonprofit in northern California. The controversial mandate, co-authored by state Senator Richard Pan, a pediatrician…
Interest in home schooling surges as California parents look to sidestep vaccine law
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