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| Date: From: Subject: | 4/5/2005 11:00:42 AM Home School Legal Defense Association Indiana--Calls Still Needed to Stop Harmful Bill |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== April 5, 2005 Indiana--Calls Still Needed to Stop Harmful Bill Dear HSLDA members and friends: Calls are needed immediately to stop a bill that would allow charter schools to spend only $2,500 educating a student, but force Indiana taxpayers to pay them $7,000 per pupil. The House did not vote on Senate Bill 598 yesterday. It is scheduled for a vote today. If you were not able to call your representative, senator or the Governor earlier, please call immediately. ACTION REQUESTED Please call your state representative, state senator, and Governor Mitch Daniels immediately. Your message can be as simple as: "Please oppose Senate Bill 598. It's fiscally irresponsible and will raise my taxes needlessly. Restore fiscal protection and accountability by preventing charter schools that provide inexpensive internet education from getting full per pupil funding from taxpayers." This bill hurts you as a taxpayer. We recommend that you do not identify yourself as a homeschooler since this will simply cause confusion. Use our legislative toolbox to find the name and phone number for your representative and senator http://www.hslda.org/toolbox . Call Governor Daniels at 317 232-4567. Since many families do not have email, please pass this on to others. BACKGROUND Senate Bill 598 removes a current safeguard that protects taxpayers from fiscal disaster. Under the current law charter schools are prohibited from giving home based instruction. This is because charter schools get paid around $7,000 per student but it only costs $500 to $2,500 to provide home based instruction. S.B. 598 removes this vital safeguard and allows charter schools to provide inexpensive home based instruction while receiving full per pupil funding. Many middle income citizens are struggling to pay rising property taxes. They do not want their taxes raised because of a law that pays charter schools $7,000 for a $2,500 education. I estimate that about 23,250 students are being homeschooled in Indiana today. If only 25% (5,812) were recruited into charter schools, Indiana taxpayers would see their tax bill go up $40.6 million. Indiana Code 20-5.5-8-2 currently prohibits a charter school from providing "home based instruction." S.B. 598 guts this prohibition by inserting the word "solely" in front of it. This would allow charters to provide inexpensive home based instruction to 99% of their students as long as 1% received non-home based instruction. This could be instruction in a regular school building, or in a city park, or a public library, or a community center, or a state or national park, etc. For our first elert, go to http://www.hslda.org/elert/archive/ Thank you for standing with us for freedom. Sincerely, Scott A. Woodruff HSLDA Staff Attorney ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> Can you call your attorney at 2 a.m. on Sunday morning? Our members can get in touch with their attorney even after business hours, when they have a legal emergency. Wouldn't you like this level of protection? More reasons to join HSLDA... http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=1100 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ====================================================================== The HSLDA E-lert Service is a service of: Home School Legal Defense Association P.O. 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