Utah Daily Herald
Home-schooled children may soon play on district school sports teams
Students who are educated at home, or who attend private or charter schools, would be eligible to play on sports teams and participate in other extracurricular activities at regular public schools in the districts where they reside under a proposal that passed a final Senate vote Monday.

Senate Bill 81 changes existing law to allow such students to participate in interschool competitions if their parents or other teachers can provide subjective proof of academic progress.

HomeTownSource.com
Tightening of student transfer rule by High School League is long overdue
The Minnesota State High School League is about to take a major step to make it harder for high school athletes, debaters and artists to transfer from their home school to another school to play with a better team or argue with a better debate team.

Under the proposed transfer rule, a student who transfers to another school after their freshman year would lose a year of varsity eligibility if their parents did not move into the new school district....

Under this system, a student could take classes in their home school and play a varsity sport in another without losing a year of eligibility and without the parents having to move to the district. If they transfer a second time they lose only a half year of eligibility under the Minnesota State High School League rules.

The Macon Telegraph
Bill on sports for home-schooled students under debate
ATLANTA - A bill that would allow home-schooled children to join public-school sports teams sparked debate Tuesday. Proponents argued that all families pay school taxes, and opponents pointed to a myriad of potential problems that they say the change would bring.

Senate Bill 85 also would allow private-school students to play sports and participate in other after-school activities at the public school they would otherwise attend. But most of the discussion during a Tuesday committee meeting focused on home-schooled children....

Athletes could use the new law to circumvent the system, [Ralph] Swearingin [executive director of the Georgia High School Association] said, because it would be difficult to ascertain whether home-schooled children meet the state's no-pass, no-play grade requirements....

But state Sen. Nancy Schaefer, R-Turnerville, who is sponsoring the bill, said she wants parents to have the option of home-schooling their children without denying them the chance to play team sports