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| Date: From: Subject: | 3/15/2005 4:07:54 PM Home School Legal Defense Association Oregon--Please Write to the Governor in Support of the Home Education Equity Bill |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== March 15, 2005 Oregon--Please Write to the Governor in Support of the Home Education Equity Bill Dear HSLDA members and friends: The Home Education Equity Bill has been introduced in the Oregon legislature. Unfortunately, Governor Ted Kulongoski vetoed the last attempt to increase freedom for homeschool parents. We need you to write to the Governor in order to show him that homeschoolers have not given up on their fight for freedom. As you may know Home School Legal Defense Association, OCEANetwork, and Oregon Home Educators Network have been working to introduce the Home Education Equity Bill to further homeschool freedom in Oregon. Thanks to your calls eighteen Representatives and thirteen Senators are sponsoring House Bill 2733. Since May 1-7, 2005, has been declared "Home Education Week" the House Education Committee Chairman has agreed to hold a hearing on H.B. 2733 on May 4, 2005. This is also "Apple Pie Day" at the Capitol; the day when all legislators in Oregon receive a home-baked apple pie and a packet of information on home education. We encourage you to plan on coming to the Capitol to take part in the hearing and meet with your legislators. ACTION REQUESTED 1) Please write to Governor Ted Kulongoski, via letter and email, and give him this message in your own words: "Please support House Bill 2733. This bill will save taxpayer dollars and allow homeschool parents the freedom to determine what is in the best interests of their children without reporting requirements that add no benefit to their child's education. Home educators have earned the right to more freedom after demonstrating their success under the homeschool law for the past 20 years." Mailing Address: Governor Kulongski 160 State Capitol 900 Court Street Salem, Oregon 97301-4047 E-mail: representative.citizen@state.or.us 2) Please contact your state Representative and state Senator urging them to support H.B. 2733. You can give them this message in your own words: "Please support House Bill 2733. This bill will save taxpayer dollars and allow homeschool parents the freedom to determine what is in the best interests of their children without reporting requirements that add no benefit to their child's education. Home educators have earned the right to more freedom after demonstrating their success under the homeschool law for the past 20 years." If your Representative or Senator is a co-sponsor of H.B. 2733 please thank them for their support. You can find the list of sponsors for H.B. 2733 here http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?ID=2183 You can find your legislator's phone number and address by using HSLDA's legislative toolbox at http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?ID=2 or by typing in your street address at http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?ID=2184 3) Please come to the Capitol on May 4, 2005, for Apple Pie Day. For more information see http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?ID=2185 BACKGROUND A similar bill was introduced in the last legislative session to bring greater freedom to homeschool families in Oregon. While this previous legislation passed both the House and Senate the Governor vetoed the bill. Our goal with H.B. 2733 is to obtain a sufficient margin in the legislature to override a potential veto from the Governor. Like the widow at the judge's door in Luke 18 we will continue to bring our petition before the Governor to persuade him to sign the Home Education Equity Bill. Oregon first enacted a homeschool law in 1985. Since that time, numerous efforts have been made to enact amendments providing more freedom to parents. The most recent change in the law occurred in 1999 when significant progress was made in reducing state oversight of homeschooling. H.B. 2733 represents a continuation of legislative efforts to gain more freedom for parents. If H.B. 2733 is enacted, Oregon will join a growing majority of states requiring no standardized testing of homeschooled students. Furthermore, public school officials will have no record of children being homeschooled, because parents will not be required to even notify public school officials of their decision to conduct home instruction. Oregon has the potential through this legislation to go from a state with an average homeschool law to a state with a great homeschool law. If everyone works hard towards this goal we can achieve success this year. For more information on H.B. 2733 and other bills HSLDA is monitoring in Oregon, visit our website at: http://www.hslda.org/hs/state/OR/default.asp Thank you for fighting for freedom in Oregon. Sincerely, Thomas Schmidt HSLDA Staff Attorney ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> Can you look at the clouds and tell the direction of the wind? An interesting phenomenon of wind is that it can blow in multiple directions at the same time, at different heights from the ground. But usually there is a prevailing wind. HSLDA watches the gusts and monitors the prevailing trends of change in the legal climate of home education. So no matter which way the wind is blowing, we're there to protect your family. 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