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| Date: From: Subject: | 2/5/2007 11:45:52 AM Home School Legal Defense Association North Dakota--Calls Needed to Support Homeschool Freedom! |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== February 5, 2007 North Dakota--Calls Needed to Support Homeschool Freedom! Dear HSLDA members and friends: Tomorrow morning, February 6, the Senate Education Committee will consider a bill to expand homeschool options for North Dakotans. The committee will conduct a hearing on Senate Bill 2371, which would permit grandparents and foster parents to conduct home education programs. Additionally, this bill would clarify that homeschool students need only take the basic battery of standardized achievement tests. It would also remove the requirement that tests chosen by the homeschool supervisor be nationally normed. Show your support for this bill by contacting members of the Senate Education Committee and attending the hearing at the Capitol Building in Bismarck on Tuesday. The hearing will be in the Missouri River Room at 10:15 a.m. Make this a field trip for your children to observe the legislative process of state government. Regardless of whether you attend the hearing, please call and e-mail members of the committee TODAY and ask them to vote for Senate Bill 2371. ACTION REQUESTED: 1. Please call and write as many members of the Senate Education Committee as possible and urge them to vote in favor of Senate Bill 2371 with this message: "Please vote in favor of Senate Bill 2371, which would permit grandparents and foster parents to conduct home education programs. It would also permit homeschool students to take the same type of standardized achievement tests as public school students." The contact information for the members of the Senate Education Committee is as follows: Sen. Layton W. Freborg, (R): 8th Senate District - Chairman (701) 442-5712 No e-mail available Sen. Tim Flakoll, (R): 44th Senate District - Vice-Chairman (701) 367-5954 tflakoll@nd.gov Sen. JoNell A. Bakke, (D): 43rd Senate District No phone number available jbakke@nd.gov Sen. Gary A. Lee, (R): 22nd Senate District 701-282-3197 galee@nd.gov Sen. Ryan M. Taylor, (D): 7th Senate District 701-537-5660 rtaylor@nd.gov 2. Please attend the Senate Education Committee Hearing on Tuesday, February 6, 2007, at the Capitol Building in Bismarck. If you are willing to testify, please come early at 9:45 a.m. just outside the Missouri River Room to coordinate testimonies. Even if you are coming to show your support by your presence, which is equally important, please plan to arrive early by 10:00 a.m., just in case the hearing starts earlier than the scheduled 10:15 a.m. starting time. To view the text of Senate Bill 2371, please visit http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=3694 Sincerely, Dewitt T. 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