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| Date: From: Subject: | 3/29/2011 10:31:39 AM Home School Legal Defense Association Iowa--Call Immediately: New Homeschool Option at Stake |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== Iowa--Call Immediately: New Homeschool Option at Stake Dear HSLDA Members and Friends, Please call before closing this email! Today Senator Bill Dix plans to introduce an amendment that adds the new homeschool option, Independent Private Instruction, to another bill, SF 423. We believe this is our very best opportunity for the new option to become law, and give Iowa families a way to homeschool that involves dramatically less paperwork and headaches. ACTION REQUESTED Please place a quick call to all of the senators listed below. These senators, we believe, will support us if they hear from enough families. Your message can be as simple as, "Please vote YES on Senator Bill Dix' amendment to SF 423. It's time to reduce costly bureaucratic paper shuffling and simplify Iowa's homeschool law." CONTACT INFORMATION Senator Mary Jo Wilhelm mary.jo.wilhelm@legis.state.ia.us Home Phone: (563) 547-4156 Senator Joe Seng joe.seng@legis.state.ia.us Home Phone: (563) 391-1627 Cell Phone: (563) 940-0671 Senator Steve Sodders steve.sodders@legis.state.ia.us Home Phone: (641) 483-2383 Senator Brian Schoenjahn brian.schoenjahn@legis.state.ia.us Home Phone: (563) 633-4065 Senator Tom Rielly tom.rielly@legis.state.ia.us Home Phone: (641) 673-5878 Senator Daryl Beall daryl.beall@legis.state.ia.us Home Phone: (515) 573-7889 Senator Dennis Black dennis.black@legis.state.ia.us Senator Swati Dandekar swati.dandekar@legis.state.ia.us Home Phone: (319) 377-2087 Senator Jeff Danielson jeff.danielson@legis.state.ia.us Cell Phone: (319) 231-7192 Senator Tom Hancock tom.hancock@legis.state.ia.us Home Phone: (563) 876-3219 BACKGROUND INFORMATION Iowa's current homeschool law was passed 20 years ago--back when no one knew if homeschooling would really work. Because homeschooling was something of an "unknown", complex control mechanisms were built into the law. But now that study after study has shown that homeschooled kids get an exceptional education, those control mechanisms are simply no longer appropriate. Iowa's current homeschool law generates a great deal of costly paperwork that benefits no one in the end. It's costly for officials because they must process all the paperwork, and it's costly for families who must spend time on paperwork that they would rather spend educating their kids. The law's complexity produces frequent conflicts. Kids in states with simple homeschool laws do just as well academically as kids in states with complex, burdensome laws like Iowa. The Independent Private Instruction option (IPI) would allow a family to homeschool without filling out the CPI form every year, without turning in a year-end assessment, and without having to hire a supervising teacher. Families in many other states--for example, Kansas, Illinois, Missouri, South Dakota and Wisconsin already enjoy the benefits of a homeschool law that is simpler than Iowa's. Iowa's families are close to a kind of freedom that is enjoyed right now only in other states. Scott Woodruff HSLDA Senior Counsel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> Will your children's inheritance retain its value? If you pass on a legacy of freedom, your children and their children's children will thank you. But freedom is never secure; it must always be guarded. Membership with HSLDA is an investment in the future that can be passed on to future generations of families wanting to teach their children at home. 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