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| Date: From: Subject: | 2/11/2009 9:43:07 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 11, 2009 North Dakota--Calls Needed to Support Homeschool Freedom! Dear HSLDA Members and Friends: Did you know that North Dakota is the only state in the Union that requires homeschooling parents to be monitored by a state-certified teacher? House Bill 1171 would remove this requirement from state law, but your calls are needed to get this bill through the North Dakota Legislative Assembly. Not only would House Bill 1171 eliminate monitors, it would also remove all parental qualifications for conducting a home education program, thereby bringing North Dakota in line with the vast majority of states. This bill would also delete the requirement that all instruction take place in the home, so that parents may have increased flexibility in conducting their educational programs. Please contact your senators and representatives today and urge them to support this much-needed legislation. ACTION REQUESTED: (1) Please call and/or email your state representative and state senator and urge them to vote in favor of House Bill 1171 with this message: "Please vote for House Bill 1171 which would modernize North Dakota's homeschool law to bring it in line with the majority of states. Homeschooling parents have earned the right to less state oversight of their instructional programs." (2) Please forward this email to every family you know who is not a member of HSLDA and urge them to contact their state representatives and state senators with this same message. You can find the name and telephone number of your state representative and state senator by going to the North Dakota legislature's website at http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=6107 To view the text of House Bill 1171, please visit http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=6108 BACKGROUND: Forty-one states do not require homeschooling parents to possess a high school diploma or GED. Only nine states require parents to have a high school diploma or GED before they can teach their children at home. Studies conducted on homeschooling have concluded that there is little statistical difference between the academic performance of children whose parents have not finished high school and those who have a college education. Most significant, homeschool students whose parents are high school dropouts have average test scores higher than those of public school students. According to a study conducted by Dr. Brian Ray of the National Home Education Research Institute, the degree of governmental regulation had no significant effect on the academic performance of homeschoolers. Whether a state imposed a high degree of regulation, low regulation, or no regulation, homeschool student test score averages were nearly identical. Such regulations may be legitimately questioned since there is no apparent benefit to student learning. Let your voice be heard today! Sincerely, Dewitt T. Black, III Senior Counsel HSLDA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> Who are the nation's best lobbyists? We don't know that this has ever been determined; but we do know that HSLDA's National Center for Home Education is the only national organization lobbying on behalf of homeschoolers on Capitol Hill. 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