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| Date: From: Subject: | 4/25/2005 9:50:35 AM Home School Legal Defense Association New Hampshire--Calls Needed to Support Bill Simplifying Homeschool Notification |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== April 25, 2005 New Hampshire--Calls Needed to Support Bill Simplifying Homeschool Notification Dear HSLDA members and friends: HB 406, which would reduce red tape and simplify the annual home education notification, is scheduled for a hearing tomorrow (Tuesday, April 26) in the Senate Education Committee. Calls are needed to all senators to help ensure the committee approves the bill tomorrow, and to support the bill in the full Senate. The bill 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 waste the time of both homeschoolers and officials. ACTION REQUESTED 1. Immediately call your senator and give him this message: "Please support House Bill 406. It removes needless red tape and allows homeschool families and officials to focus on education rather than formalities." If you do not know who your senator 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 senator. 2. Come to Concord and attend the hearing to show your support for the bill. The hearing is set for 9:00 AM in room 105 A in the State House. I plan to be there. BACKGROUND 1. The House has already approved the bill with good bipartisan support. 2. The House Education Committee gave an excellent summary of the bill's rationale: "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 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." 3. Christian Home Educators of New Hampshire also strongly supports HB 406. Thank you for standing with us for freedom. Sincerely, Scott Woodruff HSLDA Staff Attorney ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> Are you "organizationally challenged"? Finding the time to organize your home, your schedule, and your silverware drawer is difficult enough. We have something that will take the pressure off as you organize your homeschool. Home School Minder will help with your schedule, lesson plans, grades, transcripts, and much more . . . everything except those missing socks. Free to families who join HSLDA for two years. More reasons to join HSLDA... http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=1935 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ====================================================================== The HSLDA E-lert Service is a service of: Home School Legal Defense Association P.O. 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