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| Date: From: Subject: | 3/29/2005 7:01:38 PM Home School Legal Defense Association New Hampshire - Call to Support Bill Simplifying Home Education Notification |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== March 29, 2005 New Hampshire - Call to Support Bill Simplifying Home Education Notification Dear HSLDA members and friends: A bill that would reduce red tape and simplify the annual home education notification is scheduled for a vote on the House floor today, March 30. Your calls are needed to help ensure that it passes. House Bill 406 removes the requirement that homeschoolers list a description of each subject, the name of any correspondence school, the name of any commercial curriculum provider, a table of contents or scope and sequence for each subject, and all other textbooks and instructional materials. These unnecessary requirements wasted the time of both homeschoolers and officials. The bill also saves resources by removing the requirement that the commissioner of education write to families informing them that they will be "permitted" to educate their children at home if they meet all requirements. This letter was a needless formality. ACTION REQUESTED: Immediately call your representative and give them this message: "Please support House Bill 406. It removes needless red tape and allows families and officials to focus on education rather than formalities." If you do not know who your representative is, consult our legislative toolbox at http://www.hslda.org/toolbox The toolbox will also give you a telephone number to use to call your representative. BACKGROUND: 1. I provided a letter to the bill's sponsor, Marshall Quandt, giving a national perspective in support of the bill, which he read to the committee. Many supported the bill at the hearing and no one opposed it. In approving the bill on a bipartisan 12-9 vote, the majority said: "Currently, homeschool parents have to spend hours creating a curriculum for the year. Actual practice shows that the curriculum is often deviated from as the year progresses in order to provide further emphasis where needed, or to allow the teaching to become tailored to the child's interests. "The philosophy behind the current homeschool laws is that the homeschools achieve flexibility in curriculum and methods in exchange for producing results. If the specification of curriculum is removed, there will still be the requirement to teach required subjects per RSA 193-A: 4 and there will still be an evaluation process to ensure results per RSA 193-A: 6. "The committee heard testimony that there is no correlation between the test scores of homeschooled students and the amount of regulation on homeschool programs. The committee agreed that if regulation levels have no net effect on homeschooled children's education progress, then reducing those regulations makes sense, as it can benefit those parents who otherwise must spend hours attempting to comply with regulations, and helps reduce unnecessary paperwork costs to local schools. "Dozens of people attended the hearing during which there was no testimony against the bill. Vote 12-9." 2. As originally introduced, the bill also simplified the portfolio requirements, but this was removed by an amendment in committee. Thank you for standing with us for freedom. Sincerely, Scott Woodruff HSLDA Staff Attorney ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> "I saved my entire membership fee with one discount" "When I called Liberty to find out what kind of discount we could get, they told us we would 10% off our car insurance and 5% off our homeowner's insurance. 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