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| Date: From: Subject: | 4/4/2003 2:51:37 PM Home School Legal Defense Association Nevada--Your Calls Needed to Stop Homeschool Testing |
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- April 4, 2003 Dear HSLDA Members and Friends, We need your calls to keep the Nevada Legislature from forcing homeschoolers to take standardized tests. The State Board of Education decided homeschoolers do not need to be tested, but Assembly Bill 264 (a bill with twenty-one co-sponsors, including every Democrat on the House Education Committee except for Bob McCleary) would force homeschoolers to take standardized tests again. We need your calls to stop it. ACTION REQUESTED 1. Please contact the following sponsors of AB 264 who are also sponsors of AB 311, the homeschool sports bill. Say, "Thank you for your support for homeschool sports. Please take mandatory testing for homeschoolers out of AB 264." LEGISLATORS TO CONTACT: Kelvin Atkinson 775-684-8577 katkinson@asm.state.nv.us Mark Manendo 775-684-8801 mmanendo@asm.state.nv.us 2. Call the remaining sponsors of AB 264 on the Assembly Education Commitee. Tell them, "Every study shows that homeschoolers outscore public school students on standardized tests. AB 264 is an unfunded mandate which makes families and school districts pay for homeschool testing. Please vote "No" on AB 264." OTHER SPONSORS OF AB 264: Wendell P. Williams 775-684-8545 wwilliams@asm.state.nv.us Barbara Buckley 775-684-8537 bbuckley@asm.state.nv.us Vonne Chowning 775-684-8583 vchowning@asm.state.nv.us William Horne 775-684-8847 whorne@asm.state.nv.us Ellen Koivisto 775-684-8597 ekoivisto@asm.state.nv.us 3. Be prepared to attend the legislative hearing on AB 264 on Wednesday, April 9, at 3:45 p.m. The hearing will take place in room 3143 of the legislative building at 401 South Carson Street, Carson City. Clark County residents should attend the videoconference hearing in Room 4406 of the Grant Sawyer Building at 555 East Washington Avenue in Las Vegas. BACKGROUND Nevada homeschoolers worked long and hard to persuade the State Board of Education to drop many restrictions on homeschoolers last December. The State Board had previously decided that homeschoolers did not need to take standardized tests. AB 264 would make homeschoolers go back to the "bad old days" of testing. Homeschoolers do well on standardized tests. AB 264, as written would force every fourth, eighth, and eleventh grade student to take a test. The standardized testing required by AB 264 is a waste of homeschoolers' time and homeschoolers' money. AB 264 is more than seventy pages long, and contains many other controversial and expensive items. It mandates school uniforms for every child in Nevada, authorizes school-based clinics, abolishes the public school districts in Lincoln County, Esmeralda county, and Story County, requires state achievement and proficiency tests to be administered on the weekends rather than during the regular school week, and so forth. Unlike the various "must pass" bills which cannot be stopped by ordinary citizens, this bill is expensive and controversial and highly partisan. Your calls should be sufficient to stop it. NOTE: AB 311, the homeschool sports bill, will be heard in committee on Monday, April 7, at the same time and place described above. Although HSLDA takes a neutral position on whether homeschoolers should participate in public school activities, you may be interested in appearing at this hearing to make your voice heard. Very truly yours, Scott W. 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