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| Date: From: Subject: | 2/14/2011 4:01:22 PM Home School Legal Defense Association Minnesota: Your Action Needed to Advance Homeschool Freedom! |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== Minnesota--Your Action Needed to Advance Homeschool Freedom! Dear HSLDA Members and Friends, Minnesota homeschoolers have an exciting opportunity to significantly reduce homeschool reporting requirements. The homeschool mandate reduction bill, House File 355, is the companion bill to Senate File 69, and is moving forward. It will be heard at the Education Committee this Thursday, February 17, 2011. HSLDA is working closely with MACHE to support this legislation. ACTION REQUESTED 1. Please contact members of the House Education Committee by Thursday, February 17, 2011, and urge them to support House File 355, the homeschool mandate reduction bill. You can use the following message as a guide, but please personalize it in your own words: "Please support House File 355, the homeschool mandate reduction bill. Homeschool families have a long history of success in our state, and the present reporting laws require needless repetition, which creates unnecessary paperwork for both school districts and homeschool families. Passage of H.F.355 will save the state money and reduce unnecessary bureaucracy." 2. If possible, attend the Education Committee hearing this Thursday, February 17. The meeting will be held at 8:15 a.m. in the basement of the State Office Building. Contact information for members of the House Education Committee is below. Families with last names beginning with A-L call representatives 1-11; families with last names beginning with M-Z call representatives 12-21. 1. Representative Sondra Erickson - Committee Chair 651-296-6746 rep.sondra.erickson@house.mn 2. Representative Connie Doepke - Vice Chair 651-2964315 rep.connie.doepke@house.mn 3. Representative Carlos Mariani 651-296-9714 rep.carlos.mariani@house.mn 4. Representative Bob Barrett 651-296-5377 rep.bob.barrett@house.mn 5. Representative John Benson 651-296-9934 rep.john.benson@house.mn 6. Representative Lyndon Carlson Sr. 651-296-4255 rep.lyndon.carlson@house.mn 7. Representative Roger Crawford 651-296-0518 rep.roger.crawford@house.mn 8. Representative Jim Davnie 651-296-0173 rep.jim.davnie@house.mn 9. Representative Mindy Greiling 651-296-5387 rep.mindy.greiling@house.mn 10. Representative Kory Kath 651-296-5368 rep.kory.kath@house.mn 11. Representative Andrea Kieffer 651-296-1147 rep.andrea.kieffer@house.mn 12. Representative Debra Kiel 651-296-5091 rep.deb.kiel@house.mn 13. Representative Carol McFarlane 651-296-5363 rep.carol.mcfarlane@house.mn 14. Representative Rena Moran 651-296-5158 rep.rena.moran@house.mn 15. Representative Mark Murdock 651-296-4293 rep.mark.murdock@house.mn 16. Representative Pam Myhra 651-296-4212 rep.pam.myhra@house.mn 17. Representative Kim Norton 651-296-9249 rep.kim.norton@house.mn 18. Representative Tim O'Driscoll 651-296-7808 rep.tim.odriscoll@house.mn 19. Representative Branden Petersen 651-296-5369 rep.branden.petersen@house.mn 20. Representative Sandra Peterson 651-296-4176 rep.sandra.peterson@house.mn 21. Representative Kelby Woodard 651-296-7065 rep.kelby.woodard@house.mn BACKGROUND If passed, House File 355 would substantially reduce reporting requirements for homeschool families and would thus extend homeschool freedom in Minnesota. The bill would make the following changes: 1. Limit reports to the superintendent to one-time reporting when a family starts homeschooling, or when they move with a simple annual "renewal" postcard; 2. Give students the option to take a nationally recognized college entrance exam in lieu of a standardized achievement test; 3. Eliminate the requirement that parents obtain additional evaluation of a student's abilities should the student scores below the 30th percentile; 4. Eliminate the requirement that parents submit an annual instructional calendar; 5. Eliminate the requirement that parents without certain qualifications submit quarterly reports; 6. Require parents to maintain (versus make available) documentation that the student is being taught the required subjects; 7. Allow a parent to certify that a student is presently engaged in home education for the purposes of taking home-classroom driver training; 8. Allow the person in charge of providing instruction in a homeschool to issue an employment certificate; 9. Limit immunization reporting requirements to only apply to the first year of homeschooling and the 7th grade year. To view HSLDA's web page for H.F. 355 visit: http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=10309 Thank you for your effort to advance homeschool freedom! Very truly yours, Michael P. Donnelly, Esq. HSLDA Staff Attorney ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> For as little as 33 cents a day... 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