In 2004, the Southern Baptist Convention rejected a resolution that would have included a declaration against public school education and called for adherents to remove their children from public schools. Read about it in a June 16, 2004, article from The Baptist Press.

Bill Devlin is president of Redeem the Vote, a nonprofit organization that works to engage young people of faith in politics, especially through a voter registration drive. The group has been called the evangelical answer to MTV’s Rock the Vote. Contact Don Stillman in public relations.

In February 1994, Christian homeschoolers were organized by the Home School Legal Defense Association to stop an amendment to HR 6, a reappropriation bill for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, that could have required teacher certification in some homeschools. Read the defense association’s account of the campaign.

Young America’s Foundation is an organization for young conservatives. It organizes conferences for students on colleges and university campuses around conservative issues. Email through the website.

The conservative Christian advocacy group Home School Legal Defense Association offers a map to show the level of regulation in each state.

HomeSchoolFacts.com offers a map linked to pages of information on teacher certification and other requirements for each state.

Read a March 7, 2008, San Francisco Chronicle article about a California Court of Appeals ruling that made homeschoolers believe they would be forced to be credentialed teachers.

See Indiana University education professor Robert Kunzman’s homeschooling FAQ.

Read an overview of homeschooling by Editorial Projects in Education, the parent company of Education Week magazine. It was originally published on August 4, 2004, and was updated on July 13, 2011.