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| Date: From: Subject: | 1/28/2013 11:23:09 AM Scott Woodruff--HSLDA S. Dakota--Calls Needed Urgently to Equalize Access to Opportunity Scholarship |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== South Dakota--Calls Needed Urgently to Equalize Access to Opportunity Scholarship Dear HSLDA Members and Friends: A bill that will give homeschoolers fair access to the South Dakota Opportunity Scholarship (HB 1128) needs your calls in support! This bill brings fairness back to the scholarship and helps South Dakota economically by encouraging bright homeschool students to stay in the state for college--which is a major factor in where they will eventually settle down and contribute to the economy. This bill is scheduled to be heard in the House Education Committee on Wednesday, January 30. Representative Lance Russell is the primary sponsor of this bill. ACTION REQUESTED If you live in the district of one of the House Education Committee members, please call them before Wednesday to ask them to support House Bill 1128. Your message can be as simple as: "Please vote YES on HB 1128. Please give homeschoolers fair access to the Opportunity Scholarship." If your representative is not listed below, please call the chair, Jacqueline Sly. Contact information for delegates on the committee is listed below. Use our Legislative Toolbox http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=16807 to find out the name of your South Dakota representative. CONTACT INFORMATION Representative Julie Bartling Home: 605-835-8120 Business: 605-775-2741 Representative Blaine Campbell Home: 605-393-1645 Capitol: 605-773-3851 Business: 605-484-4848 Representative Scott Ecklund Home: 605-336-8615 Business: 605-328-2999 Representative Jenna Haggar (Chair) Home: 605-610-9779 Capitol: 605-773-3851 Representative Paula Hawks Home: 605-254-2440 Representative Timothy Johns Home: 605-722-3189 Business: 605-717-2889 Representative Dan Kaiser Home: 605-228-4988 Capitol: 605-773-3851 Representative Elizabeth May Home: 605-455-2588 Business: 605-455-2824 Representative Ray Ring Home: 605-675-9379 Representative James Schaefer Home: 605-869-2357 Capitol: 605-773-3851 Business: 605-869-2357 Representative Jacqueline Sly (Chair) Home: 605-343-4956 Capitol: 605-773-3851 Representative Mike Stevens Home: 605-661-0057 Business: 605-665-5550 Representative Burt Tulson Home: 605-785-3480 Capitol: 605-773-3851 Representative Kathy Tyler Home: 605-432-4310 Business: 605-237-0228 Representative Hal Wick Capitol: 605-773-3851 BACKGROUND In 2010, the South Dakota Legislature passed a bill to give homeschoolers access to the Opportunity Scholarship. The scholarship can provide $5,000 over four years for a South Dakota resident attending one of 18 institutions of higher education in South Dakota. To find out more about the scholarship, click here: http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=16998 . However, this bill did not create a level playing field for homeschooled students. Current law requires higher ACT or SAT scores for homeschoolers than it does for public school students; this bill eliminates this requirement, (however, homeschoolers would need to demonstrate "college readiness" on all four ACT subtests). See HSLDA's article from April 2010 (http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=16999 ) about the inequitable rules of this scholarship. Thank you for standing with us for freedom! Sincerely, Scott Woodruff HSLDA Senior Counsel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> Remember the last time you wrote a term paper? 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