Internationally Recognized Leader in Homeschooling Launches New Dedicated Web Site

/PRNewswire/ -- Calvert Education Services launched its new website www.calvertschool.org on July 1. The site provides comprehensive information for families interested in homeschooling and improved navigational tools. The design, content and site enhancements mark a major improvement in the educational web site landscape.

"Our new website provides our families with improved navigation, comprehensive information on our programs and services, independent, quantitative results on the benefits of homeschooling, compelling design and access to an international network of students, families and teachers," said Mike Wilmeth, Director of Marketing.

The new website has received enthusiastic and favorable reviews from families since going live earlier this month. In recognition of this achievement, Calvert is offering discounts to homeschooling families enrolling through July 20th.

The Calvert School, an independent, non-sectarian private school in Baltimore has served students since its inception in 1897. Calvert's first headmaster, Virgil Hillyer, a Harvard trained educational visionary believed that all children regardless of geography or economics should have access to a world class education. He convinced a Baltimore bookstore owner to provide the Calvert curriculum and in effect, formalized home schooling in this country in 1906.

Calvert, the trusted leader in distance learning for over a century, serves Kindergarten through Eighth Grade students in all 50 states and over 60 countries.

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Bob Barr Comments on California Home Schooling Case

The right of parents to home school their children is under attack in California, warns Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party candidate for president. A state appellate court is preparing to hear oral arguments in a case in which the trial judge ruled that parents had no constitutional right to home school their children.

Education is a state and local issue, notes Barr, but “even more so it is a parental responsibility.” For good reason, he explains,“more than 80 years ago the Supreme Court upheld the right of parents to determine their children’s schooling, calling it an essential liberty under the 14th Amendment.”

He urged the California courts to look to that case, Pierce v. Society of Sisters, in which the Court stated that “the child is not the mere creature of the state.” If the courts fail in their duty to protect the parents’ constitutional right to educate their children, he adds, then the California legislature and governor have a responsibility to act.

Barr represented the 7th District of Georgia in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003, where he served as a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, as Vice-Chairman of the Government Reform Committee, and as a member of the Committee on Financial Services. Prior to his congressional career, Barr was appointed by President Reagan to serve as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, and also served as an official with the CIA.

Since leaving Congress, Barr has been practicing law and actively advocating American citizens’ right to privacy and other civil liberties guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. Along with this, Bob is committed to helping elect leaders who will strive for smaller government, lower taxes and abundant individual freedom.