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| Date: From: Subject: | 2/19/2010 4:32:12 PM Home School Legal Defense Association South Dakota--Call Committee to Support Scholarship Equity Bill |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== South Dakota--Call Committee to Support Scholarship Equity Bill Dear HSLDA Members and Friends: Calls are needed right away to support HB 1160, the Scholarship Equity Bill. The bill passed the House on Tuesday by a 42-24 margin, but now it faces a hearing in the Senate Education Committee Tuesday, Feb. 23, at 8 a.m. in Room 423 in the Capitol in Pierre. ACTION REQUESTED Please call your senator if he or she is on the committee. Your message can be as simple as "Please give homeschool students access to the Opportunity Scholarship. They deserve basic fairness. Vote yes on HB 1160." Use our Legislative Toolbox to identify your senator at http://www.hslda.org/toolbox . If you or a loved one were rejected for an Opportunity Scholarship because of homeschooling, consider coming to the hearing to testify about your experience. COMMITTEE MEMBERS Garnos, Cooper (Chair) 605-773-3821 Gray, Bob 605-773-3821 Jerstad, Sandy 605-261-1044 Knudson, Dave (Vice Chair) 605-224-6877 Nesselhuf, Ben 605-773-3821 Olson, Russell 605-773-3821 Peterson, Jim 605-695-0032 BACKGROUND When passed in 2003, the law gave the regents enough "wiggle room" to lock homeschoolers out of the program. HB 1160 mandates that the regents open the door to homeschoolers. In recognition that homeschoolers follow highly individualized programs, HB 1160 provides for alternative instruction students to be exempted from the detailed high school course credits currently required. On the other hand, the bill requires that homeschool students score higher on the ACT college admission test--26 (85th percentile) as opposed to 24 (75th percentile) for others. It is vitally important that we push for passage of HB 1160. It will open the door. Passage this year will give us the opportunity to open the door even wider in subsequent years. Thank you for standing with us for freedom! Sincerely, Scott A. Woodruff, Esq. Senior Counsel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> You can only do so much... No one can be everywhere at once. And you can't be at home, teaching your children, while monitoring your state's legislature. Through electronic legislative services, HSLDA is monitoring state legislation for you -- watching and listening carefully for any proposed laws that could erode your right to homeschool. Join HSLDA today-we'll watch out for your future. More reasons to join HSLDA... http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=1942 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ====================================================================== The HSLDA E-lert Service is a service of: Home School Legal Defense Association P.O. Box 3000 Purcellville, Virginia 20134 Phone: (540) 338-5600 Fax: (540) 338-2733 Email: info@hslda.org Web: http://www.hslda.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- How To Subscribe: - Subscribe to the HSLDA E-lert Service at our website: https://secure.hslda.org/hslda/elert/account.asp?Process=Subscribe - Or send an email with name and complete mailing address to: subscribe@hslda.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscription Information: - You subscribed to the HSLDA E-lert Service as: ##ToAddress## - To unsubscribe from the HSLDA E-lert Service send an email from the email address you want to unsubscribe to: unsubscribe@hslda.org - To change your email address or make other changes to your subscription, visit the HSLDA E-lert Service account web page at: https://secure.hslda.org/hslda/elert/account.asp ---------------------------------------------------------------------- POSTMASTERS: This message is being sent to the most recent address we have for our subscribers. If this is an invalid email address or you have other problems, please reply to webmaster@hslda.org. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER: This is considered a private and confidential message from HSLDA to its bonafide HSLDA E-lert Service subscribers. HSLDA cannot attest to the authenticity of copies posted, forwarded, or sent by any party other than HSLDA. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: Please do not reply or otherwise use this email address; hslda@hslda.org is for broadcast purposes only and is not intended to receive incoming messages. We cannot reply to any email sent to this address. If you have comments or questions, please send email to info@hslda.org or call HSLDA at 540-338-5600. HSLDA members can also email staff directly through the Members website at http://members.hslda.org/contact.asp. Thank you for your cooperation. ====================================================================== | |
