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| Date: From: Subject: | 6/9/2011 11:47:32 AM Home School Legal Defense Association Kansas--Your Help Needed to Stop Unfair Admissions Rules |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== Kansas--Your Help Needed to Stop Unfair Admissions Rules Dear HSLDA Members and Friends: The Kansas Board of Regents will hold a hearing Monday on rules that impose harsh new requirements on assured admission to Kansas state universities for homeschool students. The new rules would require: (1) 5 AP classes with a score of 3 or higher or 5 college classes with a grade of B or higher before high school graduation; and (2) a 2.0 grade point average; or (3) a GED (with a specific score) for students starting at a university at age 21 or older. ACTION REQUESTED (1) Send an email or fax to express your opposition to the new rules. Your message can be as simple as "I oppose the new admissions regulations and concur in the formal comments of Scott Woodruff of HSLDA." Or compose your own courteous message using information in this email or from other reliable information at your disposal. (2) Address your message to the Kansas Board of Regents and fax it to the attention of J. Miller, (785) 296-0983 on Thursday or Friday. (3) Attend the hearing on Monday, June 13, at 10:00 a.m. in the Board of Regents Room at 1000 S. W. Jackson, Suite 520 Topeka, KS to express your opposition. BACKGROUND I have submitted a 7-page formal comment http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=11489 , but it would be very helpful for the board to know of your support on this important issue. My comment asks for changes of the three items mentioned above, and asks that they treat a 6-hour college class as 2 high school units. The proposed rules treat both a 3-hour college class and a 6-hour college class as the equivalent of 1 high school unit. For additional background see the minutes of the Board of Regents meeting on December 15-16, 2010. http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=11490 Under the proposed rule, the requirement of 5 AP classes or college classes must include 1 in English, math, science, social science and electives. There are specific additional requirements. This web page http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=11491 contains links for rules currently in effect (top group), rules up for hearing Monday to take effect this summer (middle group) and rules up for hearing Monday that would take effect in 2015. All of the rules (except for admission for 21-year-olds) would take effect for freshman students entering Kansas state universities starting in 2015. Universities can ask the regents for permission to adopt stricter rules. They can adopt stricter rules for non-residents without permission. The rule for 21-year-olds would take effect this summer. The new rules expand the window available for students who don't fit into the assured admission requirements from 10% to 15% of a university's freshman class. For many years, homeschool students could ONLY enter the Kansas universities through this window. This was unfair and resulted in many awkward situations, as well as much uncertainty as to whether an aspiring homeschool student would have any chance of admission. In 2009, HB 2197 was passed, which granted homeschoolers assured admission for the first time with a score of 21 on the ACT test. None of these rules, including the regent's precollege curriculum, have any impact on your authority to decide what your student must achieve in order to graduate from your non-accredited private school (homeschool). Thank you for standing with us for freedom! Scott A. Woodruff, HSLDA Senior Counsel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> Extreme makeovers are for extreme circumstances... Most homeschools don't need an extreme makeover, but there is something to be said for attention to detail and recognition of accomplishments. Watch the media and you'll soon see that not everyone wants home educators and homeschooling to look good. HSLDA works hard to shed light on the good work of home educators so it's obvious that we don't need someone "making-over" our homeschools. Join HSLDA and help us show the world that we're fine as we are . . . thank you! More reasons to join HSLDA... http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=1943 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ====================================================================== The HSLDA E-lert Service is a service of: Home School Legal Defense Association P.O. 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