The number of home-schooled children in South Hampton Roads rose 7 percent last fall to nearly 2,500, powered by a 40 percent increase in Suffolk, state records show. The number of children registered as being home-schooled in Suffolk jumped from 210 in 2002-03 to 295 in 2003-04, pushing Suffolk’s totals ahead of Norfolk’s and Portsmouth’s. MORE: http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=71971&ran=52101
