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| Date: From: Subject: | 4/1/2009 3:29:32 PM Home School Legal Defense Association Idaho--Victory for Homeschool Freedom Bill |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== April 1, 2009 Idaho--Victory for Homeschool Freedom Bill Dear HSLDA Members and Friends, Senate Bill 1017 has passed both the House and the Senate unanimously! The bill is headed for Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter, who has indicated his willingness to approve the bill. This is a significant victory for homeschool freedom in Idaho. These amendments being adopted into the compulsory school attendance law to protect homeschooling will enable Idaho to avoid the danger experienced by California last year. In California, the Court of Appeals ruled last year that homeschooled students could only be taught by parents who were certified teachers--the main reason was that there was no specific provision in the law allowing parents to individually teach children. For several months, the right to homeschool hung in the balance. By God's grace, and a lot of hard work, the Court of Appeals granted a rehearing and accepted our arguments. The judges totally reversed themselves so that homeschool freedoms now continue in California. In Idaho, with these new amendments being passed and soon enacted into law, we will avoid the California situation entirely. Senate Bill 1017 will do the following: 1. It specifically adds private home education in the compulsory school attendance law. 2. It removes the requirement that this private instruction has to be "comparable" to the public school curriculum. 3. It clarifies that homeschoolers do not have to teach any certain number of hours or days per year. 4. With this language added, the law allows other friends or relatives to provide the teaching--not only parents. This flexibility is important for times of crisis where parents want to continue homeschooling but need to have the support of someone outside the home to provide the instruction for a time. We are thankful to have contributed to the joint endeavor with ICHE and CHOIS to make this change a reality. We recommend that you send a thank-you to the two sponsors (listed below) who did a lot of hard work to get this bill passed in the House and Senate. You can reach Sen. Russell Fulcher at (208) 332-1340 or rfulcher@senate.idaho.gov and Rep. Bob Nonini at (208) 667-5762 or bnonini@house.idaho.gov. To hear more about the miracle of this bill's passage and to be encouraged with many good workshops and sessions, we urge you to register now to attend the CHOIS "Growing in Unity" Convention on June 12 and 13 in Nampa, Idaho. I will speaking there and giving several sessions and keynotes. For more information and to register, visit www.chois.org. We hope to see you there. Sincerely, Chris Klicka, HSLDA Senior Counsel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> Will your friends stand by you in trouble? 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