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| Date: From: Subject: | 2/10/2006 12:35:40 PM Home School Legal Defense Association Hawaii--Your Calls are Making the Difference! |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== February 10, 2006 Dear HSLDA members and friends: Due to your calls and emails one of the mandatory kindergarten bills has been defeated! On Wednesday the Education and Military Affairs Committee in the Senate voted 3 to 1 to have Senate Bill 2186 "held." This action by the committee will ensure that this bill is not sent to the entire Senate for consideration. While this is a significant victory we must not rest until all of the bills have been defeated. Please continue to contact the various committee members below and urge them to defeat the remaining bills. If you have already called all members then please email, if you have emailed please consider calling. ACTION REQUESTED: 1. Please call or email the House Education Committee members listed below and give them this message: "Please ensure that House Bills 2088, 2089 and 2139 are defeated. Lowering the compulsory school attendance age from 6 to 5 and making kindergarten mandatory takes away the right of parents to decide whether their children are ready for school and would only waste taxpayers' money. " Do not identify yourself as a homeschooler, instead you can identify yourself as a concerned parent and taxpayer. House Education Committee Members Committee Chairman: Representative Roy M. Takumi Phone 808-586-6170 E-mail reptakumi@Capitol.hawaii.gov Vice Chairman: Representative Lyla B. Berg, PH.D. Phone 808-586-6510 email repberg@Capitol.hawaii.gov Representative Dennis A. Arakaki Phone 808-586-6050 E-mail reparakaki@Capitol.hawaii.gov Representative Rida T.R. Cabanilla Phone 808-586-6080 E-mail repcabanilla@Capitol.hawaii.gov Representative Jerry L. Chang Phone 808-586-6120 From the Big Island, toll free 974-4000 + 66120 e-mail repchang@Capitol.hawaii.gov Representative Corinne W.L. Ching Phone 808-586-9415 E-mail repching@Capitol.hawaii.gov Representative Lynn Finnegan Phone 808-586-9470 E-mail repfinnegan@Capitol.hawaii.gov Representative Josh Green, M.D. Phone 808-586-9605 From the Big Island, toll free 974-4000 + 69605 E-mail repgreen@Capitol.hawaii.gov Representative Helene H. Hale Phone 808-586-6530 From the Big Island, toll free 974-4000 + 66530 E-mail rephale@Capitol.hawaii.gov Representative Bev Harbin Phone 808-586-6180 E-mail repharbin@Capitol.hawaii.gov Representative Michael Puamamo Kahikina Phone 808-586-8465 E-mail repkahikina@Capitol.hawaii.gov Representative Maile S. L. Shimabukuro Phone 808-586-8460 E-mail repshimabukuro@Capitol.hawaii.gov Representative Tommy Waters Phone 808-586-9450 E-mail repwaters@Capitol.hawaii.gov 2) Please call or email the Senate Education and Military Affairs Committee members listed below to give them this message: "Thank you for defeating Senate Bill 2186. Please ensure that Senate Bill 2888 is also defeated. Lowering the compulsory school attendance age from 6 to 5 and making kindergarten mandatory takes away the right of parents to decide whether their children are ready for school and would only waste taxpayers' money." Do not identify yourself as a homeschooler, instead you can identify yourself as a concerned parent and taxpayer. Senate Education and Military Affairs Committee Members Chairman Senator Norman Sakamoto Phone: 808-586-8585 E-mail: sensakamoto@Capitol.hawaii.gov Vice-Chairman Senator Gary L. Hooser Phone: 808-586-6030 From Kauai, toll free 274-3141 + 66030 E-mail: senhooser@Capitol.hawaii.gov Senator Suzanne Chun Oakland Phone: 808-586-6130 E-mail: senchunoakland@Capitol.hawaii.gov Senator Clarence K. Nishihara Phone: 808-586-6970 E-mail: sennishihara@Capitol.hawaii.gov Senator Shan S. Tsutsui Phone: 808-586-7344 From Maui, toll free 984-2400 + 67344 E-mail: sentsutsui@Capitol.hawaii.gov Senator Bob Hogue Phone: 808-587-7215 E-mail: senhogue@Capitol.hawaii.gov BACKGROUND: Senate Bill 2186 was defeated with a 3 to 1 vote. The Chairman, Senator Sakamoto, and the Vice-Chairman, Senator Hooser, voted to defeat the bill along with Senator Nishihara. The only vote in favor of the bill was Senator Chun Oakland, who was also the main sponsor of the bill. Senators Tsutsui and Hogue were excused from the vote. All of the remaining bills are active. Currently there are three bills in the House--H.B. 2088, H.B. 2089, and H.B. 2139--and one bill in the Senate--S.B. 2888. While House Bill 2089 has been deferred by the committee this is not a complete victory. If the committee simply defers a bill our understanding is that it can be reconsidered at any time. H.B. 2089 and the remaining bills must be completely defeated before this issue is dead. For more information on these bills online see http://www.hslda.org/hs/state/HI/default.asp . For more information on compulsory attendance, please see our memorandum at http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?ID=1421 . If you are not yet a member of HSLDA and would like to help us fight for greater homeschool freedom in Hawaii please visit http://www.hslda.org/join/apply.asp . Join or renew online between now and March 18 and you can save up to an additional $30 off membership. Thank you for your part in fighting for freedom in Hawaii. Sincerely, Thomas Schmidt HSLDA Staff Attorney ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> Will your friends stand by you in trouble? 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