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| Date: From: Subject: | 1/22/2007 10:00:11 AM Home School Legal Defense Association Nebraska--Calls Needed Immediately to Help Single Parents Homeschool! |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== January 22, 2007 Nebraska--Calls Needed Immediately to Help Single Parents Homeschool! Dear HSLDA members and friends: Senator Philip Erdman has introduced Legislative Bill 101, which would modify Nebraska's law to allow just one parent to sign the enrollment statement for homeschooling under Rules 12 and 13. This bill would reduce the burden on all homeschool families and make it much easier for single parents to homeschool. For the full text of L.B. 101, go to: http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=3627 . The Education Committee has scheduled a hearing on Legislative Bill 101 for today, Monday, January 22, 2007, at 1:30 p.m. in room 1525 in the State Capitol building. Calls are needed today to support this legislation! Most everyone knows a single parent struggling to homeschool and this bill would be a very significant improvement in the law to help these families. Please contact the members listed below to support this bill today. ACTION REQUESTED Please contact members of the Education Committee (listed below) and ask them to support this legislation. Senator Ron Raikes, Chair (402) 471-2731 Senator Gail Kopplin, Vice Chair (402) 471-2627 Senator Greg Adams (402) 471-2756 Senator Brad Ashford (402) 471-2622 Senator Bill Avery (402) 471-2633 Senator Carroll Burling (402) 471-2712 Senator Gwen Howard (402) 471-2723 Senator Joel T. Johnson (402) 471-2726 BACKGROUND Although only one parent's signature is required to enroll students in an accredited public, private, or parochial school, both parents must sign to file under Rule 12 or 13 as an exempt school. Additionally, only a single signature is needed for a student to drop out of a public school. There is no rational reason to treat exempt schools differently in this regard from other schools. Requiring two signatures places an unfair burden on single parents. In many cases, the single custodial parent carries most of the responsibility for raising the children while the non-custodial parent is disinterested and uninvolved. In Nebraska, it often takes family court action to obtain the signature necessary to homeschool. The burden should be on the non-custodial parent to challenge enrollment if necessary rather than on the custodial parent to obtain all necessary signatures. Legislative Bill 101 will reduce the administrative burden on traditional families with two parents and make it possible for single parents to homeschool without undue administrative burden. In some cases, single parents are unable to reasonably obtain the signature of the second parent. Some of these scenarios include situations where: >The father is listed on the birth certificate but the mother has had no contact with the father of the child since the birth of the child; >The mother and child do not know the father's location and thus, can neither divorce the father and obtain sole custody of the child nor contact the father for a signature; >The father may be in prison and thus is not involved in the education of the children, but the mother does not have sole custody documentation and can not readily obtain the father's signature. Thank you for standing with us to protect parental rights! Sincerely, Michael P. Donnelly HSLDA Staff Attorney ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> Who's knocking on your door? When a social service worker arrives at your door, tension can run high. Wouldn't it be nice to get your lawyer on the phone, providing you with immediate step-by-step guidance? 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