The Trump administration says one of its primary goals in education is to expand school choice and put power back in the hands of parents. Yet it has caused a loss of homeschool statistics, killing the main way to track one of the most rapidly growing options — learning at home.

The Education Department began counting the number of homeschooled children in 1999, when fewer than 2 percent of students were educated this way. Homeschooling rose by 50 percent in the first decade of the 2000s and then leveled off at around 3 percent.

Read the full article about losing homeschool statistics by Jill Barshay at The Hechinger Report.