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| Date: From: Subject: | 5/10/2010 1:46:15 PM Home School Legal Defense Association New Hampshire - More Action Needed to Protect Privacy |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== New Hampshire - More Action Needed to Protect Privacy Dear HSLDA Members and Friends: The House Education Committee met in executive session last week, and a majority of the committee recommended passing Senate Bill 503 with amendments. The bill is scheduled to be heard by the full House of Representatives on Wednesday, May 12. If passed, this bill would require postsecondary institutions to request and maintain a Unique Pupil Identifier (UPI) for all students enrolled in their respective schools. The House Education Committee amended the bill to allow parents of children in early education programs to deny consent to participate and to improve the bill's privacy protections. However, the bill still affects homeschoolers who enroll in post secondary institutions by requiring these institutions to request a UPI. Representative Ingbrestson and others have drafted an amendment which we support that will explicitly prohibit postsecondary institutions from obtaining a UPI for any student who does not already have a UPI. This would protect the privacy of homeschool students, private school students, and out-of-state students who were not previously entangled with the public school system. Please take action, as requested below, to protect the privacy of your students. ACTION REQUESTED Please contact your representative by May 11, and give the following message in your own words: "Please support amending Senate Bill 503 to add more protections for the privacy of New Hampshire private school students, homeschooled students and students who received their education out of state. Parents and children who opt out of public education should not be subjected to such data collection. If this bill passes without the amended language, students who never attended a public school will be required to be assigned a unique pupil identifier. If the purpose of this bill is to link public school performance to performance in preschool or college, then there is no need for private or homeschooled students to be assigned a UPI." Because this bill will affect many privately educated students, it is not necessary to identify yourself as a homeschooler. To find your representative visit www.hslda.org/toolbox . Thank you for your efforts to defend the privacy of homeschoolers. Standing with you, Michael P. Donnelly, Esq. HSLDA Staff Attorney ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> Who are the nation's best lobbyists? We don't know that this has ever been determined; but we do know that HSLDA's Federal Relations Department is the only national organization lobbying on behalf of homeschoolers on Capitol Hill. 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