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| Date: From: Subject: | 5/22/2003 5:17:51 PM Home School Legal Defense Association Massachusetts--Meeting Scheduled to Discuss New Homeschool Advisory |
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- May 22, 2003 Dear HSLDA Members and Friends, After years of effort, Massachusetts homeschool groups are moving forward with the Department of Education. Thanks to the diligence of the Massachusetts Home Learning Association, Massachusetts homeschoolers will get a new opportunity to discuss their concerns with the department. Elizabeth Keliher, the department attorney, has confirmed her intention to permit representatives from all statewide homeschool groups to participate in a meeting on June 9, 2003. HSLDA Attorney Scott Somerville will attend this meeting, along with activists from the Massachusetts Home Learning Association, Massachusetts Homeschool Organization of Parent Educators, Advocates for Home Education in Massachusetts, and Catholic Homeschoolers in Massachusetts East. Nationally-known homeschool leaders Pat Farenga and Cynthia Sulaiman have also been invited to attend. HSLDA attorneys have spoken at length with Attorney Keliher about the department's decade-long effort to put out a new advisory. For years now, Massachusetts school officials have been contacting HSLDA to find out what Massachusetts law says regarding homeschoolers because the department's existing advisory is out of date. School officials are increasingly confused about complicated questions of special education law, privacy law, and other matters that affect home education. While the department has no direct control of home education, departmental advisories are usually the first source school officials look to for guidance. The department's sixteen-year- old document is an embarrassment. Long ago Benjamin Franklin said, "We must all hang together, or we shall most assuredly all hang separately." If Massachusetts homeschoolers will work together the way their ancestors did, we will enjoy the blessings of liberty together. For more information on this issue visit our website at: http://www.hslda.org/hs/state/ma/200305090.asp Very truly yours, Scott W. Somerville HSLDA Staff Attorney {{JoinAd}} ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The HSLDA E-lert Service is a service of: Home School Legal Defense Association P.O. Box 3000 Purcellville, Virginia 20134 Phone: (540) 338-5600 Fax: (540) 338-2733 Email: info@hslda.org Web: http://www.hslda.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- How To Subscribe: - Subscribe to the HSLDA E-lert Service at our website: https://secure.hslda.org/hslda/elert/account.asp?Process=Subscribe - Or send an email with name and complete mailing address to: subscribe@hslda.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscription Information: - You subscribed to the HSLDA E-lert Service as: {{Email}} - To unsubscribe from the HSLDA E-lert Service send an email from the email address you want to unsubscribe to: unsubscribe@hslda.org - To change your email address or make other changes to your subscription, visit the HSLDA E-lert Service account web page at: https://secure.hslda.org/hslda/elert/account.asp ---------------------------------------------------------------------- POSTMASTERS: This message is being sent to the most recent address we have for our subscribers. If this is an invalid email address or you have other problems, please reply to webmaster@hslda.org. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER: This is considered a private and confidential message from HSLDA to its bonafide HSLDA E-lert Service subscribers. HSLDA cannot attest to the authenticity of copies posted, forwarded, or sent by any party other than HSLDA. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: Please do not reply or otherwise use this email address; hslda@hslda.org is for broadcast purposes only and is not intended to receive incoming messages. We cannot reply to any email sent to this address. If you have comments or questions, please send email to info@hslda.org or call HSLDA at 540-338-5600. HSLDA members can also email staff directly through the Members website at http://members.hslda.org/contact.asp. Thank you for your cooperation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
