This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, March 31st, 2020.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Many millions of parents are about to discover the broad range of resources available online to continue their children's

education's at home now that tens of millions of U.S. school-age children are suddenly homeschooled

kids.

So what are those resources and what should those parents

expect from state and local public school authorities to make the

transition to homeschooling easier? Carrie McDonald is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute and author of the book

Unschooled. We spoke last week. Well I think it's fair to say that nearly all if not

all of the 50 million roughly 50 million US school age children are now home

They're not in their schools and so it's having a tremendous impact on

Education of course we're all homeschooling now by default. But we are

seeing some reactions from states and districts and the federal government. So

states are many states are waiving compulsory

attendance requirements saying you know we don't have to make up the time for the

rest of the school year. So that is happening. We're seeing the federal

Department of Education

sending waivers to states for annual testing requirements

under the Every Students Succeed Act.

So saying that states do not have to comply

with annual standardized testing mandates.

At the individual school and district level, many schools are trying to provide supplementary materials, curriculum to students and encouraging teachers

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