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| Date: From: Subject: | 4/12/2010 11:14:54 AM Home School Legal Defense Association New Hampshire: Your Action Needed to Defend Against Intrusive Regulations! |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== New Hampshire: Your Action Needed to Defend Against Intrusive Regulations! Dear HSLDA Members and Friends: The State Board of Education ("BOE") is preparing to decide the fate of New Hampshire's home education rules this week. The Board will meet this Wednesday, and the home education rules are on their agenda for 2:30 p.m. Any changes to the rules passed by the board will go to Joint Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules for final review, and the Board will have one more final adoption vote on the rules. After postponing a final decision last month the Board sent the rules to a working group. After being unable to agree on all of the proposed changes, working group leader and BOE member Stephen L'Heureux asked the Department of Education to propose a minimal set of regulations. The Department of Education responded by deleting almost the entire "final proposal" with a notable exception. Although the Department appropriately changed the compulsory attendance age made by SB18 and changes made by SB 337 (changed 30-day notice requirement to 5 days), the Department inappropriately retained a requirement that homeschoolers list the subjects they will teach in their annual notice of intent. This language should be deleted since it was the explicit language and intent of HB 406 to remove this requirement for homeschoolers. This is one of the issues that proponents of increased regulation have come back to time and again. HSLDA believes it is an attempt by some in the Department of Education to achieve through rule what the legislature has both explicitly rejected (in HB 406) and implicitly rejected by refusing to reinstate this requirement (SB337 and HB 367/368). Even though the state Board appears to be amenable to the changes proposed by homeschool leaders to delete the reference to the list of subjects, there has been some confusion on the Board about whether they ought to require this information or not. Therefore, we are asking that you contact the Board and politely request that they make those minimal changes and remove the requirement of a list of subjects in the notification section. You can see the proposed final proposal at http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=8045 and the proposed homeschoolers proposal http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=8046 Please take action, as requested below, to prevent an unnecessary increase in government regulation. ACTION REQUESTED Please contact your district's member of the State Board of Education and at least one of the members representing the public at large before April 14. Give them the following message in your own words: "Thank you for serving on the State Board of Education and for your work on the rule-making process for Home Education Rule 315. I have reviewed the final proposed "minimalist" approach recommended by the Department of Education. Please remove the requirement in 315.04(a)(3) of the proposed rules that would require homeschoolers to include a list of subjects in their notification. This requirement was explicitly removed from the home education law by HB 406 in 2006. Furthermore, the legislature has chosen not to reinsert this requirement on two occasions since then in SB 337 and HB 367/368. I support the proposed changes made to the board by homeschool leaders recommending placing the 5-day requirement in the first section of the rule and removing the requirement for the list of subjects. Thank you again for your support of home education in the Granite State." There are five board members who represent each executive council district and two members who represent the public at large. To find out which district you live in visit http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=8047 Contact information is below: John E. Lyons, Jr., Chairman (At Large) Office: (603) 431-5144 Home: (603) 430-9570 jlyons@lyonslaw.net Fredrick J. Bramante, Jr. (At Large) Home: (603) 868-5683 Office: (603) 623-7900 fredbramante@daddys.com Helen G. Honorow (District 5) Office: (603) 883-0474 Home: (603) 598-8433 hhonorow@barrylawoffice.com Daphne A. Kenyon, Ph.D. (District 3) Home: (603) 886-7207 dkenyon433@aol.com Stephen R. L'Heureux (District 4) Home: (603) 668-2708 Office: (603) 669-2256 s.lheureux@comcast.net Tom Raffio (District 2) Home: (603) 715-2750 Office: (603) 223-1300 tomraffio@nedelta.com William D. Walker (District 1) wwjazz2@aol.com Thank you for your continued efforts to defend freedom in New Hampshire! Standing with you, Michael P. Donnelly, Esq. 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