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| Date: From: Subject: | 3/12/2007 10:53:22 AM Home School Legal Defense Association North Dakota: Bad Changes to Homeschool Bill |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== March 12, 2007 North Dakota: Bad Changes to Homeschool Bill Dear HSLDA members and friends: Here we go again! Senate Bill 2371, which started off as a good bill, then was amended to become a bad bill, then amended again to become a good bill as it passed the North Dakota Senate, has become a bad bill again. The House Education Committee changed the bill last week to make it completely unacceptable to homeschoolers. Your calls to state representatives are crucial to stopping this bad legislation. As originally introduced, Senate Bill 2371 would have changed the law to permit grandparents and foster parents to homeschool, to clarify that homeschool students only have to take the basic battery of standardized tests, and to permit parents to choose a test that was not nationally normed. As now amended, the bill would not even permit grandparents to homeschool and also does the following: > Requires monitoring by a certified teacher to continue beyond two years if the student scores below grade level or below the 50th percentile in any subject; > Imposes monitoring for one year on any family at the family's expense if the superintendent of public instruction determines that the family has violated any provision of the homeschool law; > Requires testing in grades 3, 4, 6, 8, and 11 with the state assessment or with a nationally normed standardized achievement test; > Requires the parent choosing a standardized achievement test to pay for the cost of having the test administered in all cases; > If a remediation plan is implemented because of a low test score, the student must continue to be evaluated for progress by the superintendent until the student scores "above the lowest achievement level on every subject tested on the state assessment, a score at or above the thirtieth percentile on every subject tested on a nationally normed standardized achievement test" or a score demonstrating one year of academic progress. North Dakota already has the third most restrictive law in the nation. As presently written, Senate Bill 2371 would make it even worse. The full House may vote on this bill at any time, probably Tuesday or Wednesday. Please contact your state representative TODAY! REQUESTED ACTION: 1. Please call your state representative as soon as possible with this message: "Please vote against Senate Bill 2371 as it was amended by the House Education Committee. As passed by the Senate, it would have simply permitted grandparents to homeschool their grandchildren. The grandparent provisions have now been stripped from the bill, and it would impose unreasonable monitoring and testing requirements on homeschool students unlike any other state in the nation." You can find the name and telephone number of your state representative by using HSLDA's Legislative Toolbox at http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=3874 . 2. 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