Democratic officials in Michigan are calling for more state oversight into homeschooling after authorities allege it was used as a cover to help conceal acts of child abuse—setting off a fierce debate over the government’s role in at-home education.
The case in Clinton County, Michigan, involves two couples—Jerry and Tamal Flore and Tammy and Joel Brown—in what state Attorney General Dana Nessel described earlier this month as a conspiracy to profit from adopting nearly 30 children, some of whom they are accused of abusing, according to the Lansing State Journal.
