An appeals court’s decision encourages French homeschooling families facing hostility from local education officials all the way up to the country’s president.

President Macron officially presented national legislation to require homeschool parents to sign a statement. It would also implement a new approval process empowering local officials to deny the right to homeschool.

Homeschool advocates in France are preparing to challenge new regulations that are more restrictive than the law permits.

Families who wish to educate their own children are being targeted once again in a new proposed law known as L’École de la Confiance (the school of trust)

Even as a number of European governments enact new restrictions on home education, advocates from 20 nations gathered in Paris to discuss ways to promote homeschooling and increase freedom.

Hundreds of international and US homeschool groups joined in the call for Macron to retract his unconstitutional proposal.

Three organizations have launched a legal challenge to severe homeschool restrictions introduced by a 2021 law

New restrictions backed by threats of coercion have alarmed families in a nation with one of the largest homeschooling populations in Europe

As more families switch to homeschooling in the wake of COVID-19, more countries are looking at ways to regulate the educational option.

Western Europe is moving to restrict homeschooling, while Brazilian families are enjoying greater freedom to direct their children’s education.