Previous Issue Current Issue Next Issue About Search Archives Advertising VOLUME XVI, NUMBER 4 - disclaimer - JULY / AUGUST 2000   C  O  N  T  E  N  T  S   Cover Story Average Families with Outstanding Courage Special Features Home Schoolers Making Headlines HSLDA Debate Tournament: Final Round National Center Reports HSLDA Testifies on NAEP Reform IRS Fines Families for Refusing SSNs In Our Prayers: The Passing of Sen. Coverdell Across the States State by State Regular Features In the Trenches Active Cases Pending Cases Staff News Prayer and Praise Presidents Page F. Y. I. The Widows Curriculum Scholarship Fund H  O  M  E     S  C  H  O  O  L  I  N  G     N  E  W  S     F  R  O  M AL · CA · CO · CT · DC · GA · HI · IL · IN · MD · MS · MT · NC · NJ · NV · NY · OH · OR · SC · TN · VA · WI · WV · WY Illinois Form Not Required The DuPage Regional Office of Education recently wrote a Home School Legal Defense Association family in DuPage County, asking them to fill out a registration form to “help verify that [the] child is in compliance with the Illinois Compulsory School Attendance Law.” Home schools are private schools under Illinois law, and private schools are not obliged fill out any such form. HSLDA advised this family not to return the form and advised the regional office of education that it has no right to insist on use of the form. — Scott A. Woodruff

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