Home Schoolers Lobby Legislature

Three days a week, Kelly and Andrea are home schooled by their mom. On Tuesdays and Thursdays they're at C.S. Lewis Hall.

"I like that we get to spend more time together. It's kind of a bonding between us," Andrea said. "We do a lot of things like science experiments or we do a discussion in class of the book we're reading, or we do a math lesson, so that what we do at home is mostly all the work."

The Texas Home School Coalition says home schooling is on the rise -- about 10 percent a year. According to the THSC, 300,000 Texas students are home schooled, about 3 percent of the number in public schools. About 300 members of the THSC were in Austin Tuesday to lobby for HB 530. The bill would make home school eligible for state grants to attend college.