Diploma measure still faces hurdles : State and Regional News : Knoxville News Sentinel

Here is a less biased source. This only applies to home schooled kids. Tennessee does have a point though, there are kids who are dropping out of public schools, and then getting a home school certificate. Who is to say that these home schooled kids are even educated as well as a public schooled one. Home schoolers are not even required to take proficiency tests.