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Black families increasingly choose to homeschool kids

Black families increasingly choose to homeschool kids

04/22/2018

PBS News Hour

Black families increasingly choose to homeschool kids

Clip: 4/22/2018 | 10m 55sVideo has Closed Captions

Black families increasingly choose to homeschool kids

In the last 15 years, the number of black children in homeschool has doubled from 103,000 to about 220,000. Black parents cite a number of reasons for homeschooling children, including concern over peer pressure and drugs at school -- but increasingly, they are also citing school-related racism as a reason to keep students at home. NewsHour Weekend's Ivette Feliciano reports.

04/22/2018

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