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| Date: From: Subject: | 1/12/2006 5:03:18 PM Home School Legal Defense Association HSLDA: New Hampshire--Crucial Vote Next Week |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== New Hampshire--Crucial Vote Next Week, Calls Needed to Support Bill Simplifying Homeschool Notification Dear HSLDA members and friends: House Bill 406, which would reduce red tape and simplify the annual home education notification, is scheduled for a vote in the Senate next week. It has already passed the House. 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. It is important that the Senate pass the bill with just the same language that passed the house, without any amendment. The vote is scheduled for Thursday, January 18. Action Requested 1. Immediately call your senator and give him this message: "Please support House Bill 406 as passed by the House, without any amendment. It removes needless red tape and allows homeschool families and officials to focus on education rather than formalities." 2. Talk to your senator in person when he or she is home this weekend. 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 and address so you can visit him or her. Background The House Education Committee explained the bill's rationale: "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." Thank you for standing with us for freedom. Sincerely, Scott Woodruff HSLDA Staff Attorney ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> How long are you in for? Some families are facing what seems like a lifelong commitment to homeschooling, with children at both ends of the spectrum-some graduating and some just reaching school age. If you're going to be "in" for a while, consider a lifetime membership with HSLDA. 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