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| Date: From: Subject: | 5/15/2002 3:05:36 PM Christopher J. Klicka, Esq., Senior Counsel of HSLDA New York--Your Calls Needed on Home School Bill |
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- May 15, 2002 Dear HSLDA Members and Friends, Thanks to your efforts the battle for the New York Home School Bill, Senate Bill 4767, continues to move forward. The bill is now in the Assembly and is referred to as A11364. As we reported, Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg of the 20th Assembly District, the Deputy Majority Whip of the Assembly, has agreed to sponsor the Assembly version of the home school bill. In order to generate support and gain final passage for the bill we need you to take the following steps. REQUESTED ACTION 1) Call as many of the members of the House Education Committee as you can and give them the following message: "Please support A11364, the Home School Bill. This bill will save millions of taxpayer dollars while ending unnecessary regulations on families." The committee could vote on any day so your phone calls are vital. Assembly Education Committee Steven Sanders, Chair 518-455-5506 Carmen E. Arroyo 518-455-5402 Bob Barra 518-455-4656 James F. Brennan 518-455-5377 Barbara M. Clark 518-455-4711 James D. Conte 518-455-5732 Ruben Diaz 518-455-5514 Thomas P. DiNapoli 518-455-5192 Jay J. Dinga 518-455-5526 Patricia A. Eddington 518-455-4901 Steve Englebright 518-455-4804 Gary D. Finch 518-455-5878 Aurelia Greene 518-455-5671 Earlene Hooper 518-455-5861 Susan V. John 518-455-4527 Tom Kirwan 518-455-5762 Steven L. Labriola 518-455-5305 John W. Lavelle 518-455-4677 Elizabeth O'C. Little 518-455-5565 William B. Magnarelli 518-455-4826 William L. Parment 518-455-4511 Amy Paulin 518-455-5585 William Scarborough 518-455-4451 Dede Scozzafava 518-455-5797 Scott Stringer 518-455-5802 Frances T. Sullivan 518-455-5841 Robert K. Sweeney 518-455-5787 Ronald C. Tocci 518-455-4897 Paul D. Tonko 518-455-5197 2) Take time to write a letter of support to your own assemblyman. You can find your legislator by going using our Legislative Toolbox at: http://www.hslda.org/toolbox or by calling 518-455-4100. Weisenberg's office has indicated that personal letters are the most effective. Since the legislative session ends in a month, letters should be sent within the next week. 3) Pray fervently that God would show Himself strong through the passage of A11364. BACKGROUND S.B. 4767 passed the Senate Education Committee last year, but another vote was required for 2002. The committee passed the bill again on March 7, 2002. We are now awaiting a vote in the full Senate, which we are confident will be successful. Meanwhile, the bill is in the Assembly as A11364, where it has been referred to the Education Committee. If this bill is enacted, it will not only relieve parents and public school officials of time consuming administrative tasks, but it will also significantly increase the freedom of home educators in New York. New York has the potential through this legislation to go from the state with the most restrictive home school law in the nation, to a state with one of the most favorable laws for home educators. Passage of A11364 will virtually eliminate all of the legal problems for home schooling families in New York. The bill will: - eliminate the requirement of an Individualized Home Instruction Plan (IHIP); - eliminate the requirement of quarterly reports; - eliminate required subjects at all grade levels; - permit the alternative method of evaluation (instead of standardized testing) every year; - permit parents who wish to test their children to choose any nationally normed standardized achievement test, in addition to a State Education Department test or another approved test; - eliminate the requirement that the local superintendent consent to the person who administers a standardized achievement test or who conducts the alternative method of evaluation; - lower the minimum standardized test score from above the 33rd percentile to above the 23rd percentile; and - eliminate the provision for home visits while a home instruction program is on probation. Over the past 17 years, HSLDA has assisted and represented thousands of HSLDA member families in New York. We have seen first hand the abuse home schooling families have received from school districts applying the present law. We now have the opportunity to remove this burden. Thank you for all of your efforts in this battle for freedom! Christopher J. Klicka Senior Counsel {{JoinAd}} ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The HSLDA E-lert Service is a service of: Home School Legal Defense Association P.O. 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