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Published: March 14, 2008
About 2.2% of students stay at home
By Wendy K. Kleinman
There were 1.1 million homeschooled students in the United States in 2003, accounting for 2.2 percent of the school-age population, according to the most recent data from the National Center for Education Statistics .

That was up from 850,000 students, or 1.7 percent of the population, in 1999.

The Home School Legal Defense Association Web site says at least one-quarter of a million students in high school al...

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