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| Date: From: Subject: | 2/19/2013 4:54:27 PM Scott Woodruff--HSLDA South Dakota: Please Call for Scholarship Fairness Bill! |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== South Dakota: Please Call for Scholarship Fairness Bill! Dear HSLDA Members and Friends: The Scholarship Fairness Bill, HB 1128 faces a crucial test in the South Dakota Senate early Thursday morning in a committee hearing. Your calls are needed urgently! Action Requested Today (Tuesday) or tomorrow (Wednesday), please call your South Dakota state senator and ask him or her 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." Remember that your senator may not yet know anything about the bill, so be prepared to give a short explanation. In its current form, the bill lowers the qualifying ACT score for homeschoolers from 28 to 26--which is much closer to the score of 24 which public school students must achieve. Check here http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=17264 to find out the name and contact information of your South Dakota state senator. Background The Opportunity 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=17265 . This bill will help the South Dakota economy by encouraging bright homeschooled kids to go to college in state--making it more likely that they will make South Dakota their long-term home. Some argue that public school kids "deserve" the scholarship more than homeschoolers because public school kids must take a "rigorous curriculum" and homeschoolers are not mandated to do that. However, the whole point of a "rigorous curriculum" is to produce learning! Learning can be measured generally by tests. If a homeschooler scores a 26 on the ACT that is solid proof that his curriculum was at least as rigorous as a public school student who scores only a 24. The proof is in the result! Furthermore, homeschoolers will still be held to certain minimum "college readiness" scores within each of the four ACT subtest areas (math, science, English, writing), and public school students will not. This bill gets us much closer to a truly level playing field, but our kids will still be proving more when they qualify. The bill was approved by the House last week. If the bill is approved in the Senate committee Wednesday morning, it will quickly move to the Senate floor, so it is vital that all senators hear from their constituents promptly. HSLDA and South Dakota Christian Home Educators are united in supporting this bill. Representative Lance Russell, the bill's chief sponsor, is doing an excellent job moving this bill toward enactment. Thank you for standing with us for freedom! Sincerely, Scott Woodruff HSLDA Senior Counsel P.S. If you are not yet a member of HSLDA and would like to help us fight for greater homeschool freedom in South Dakota please click here: http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=17266 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> "I saved my entire membership fee with one discount" "We've been a Liberty Mutual customer for over 12 years. We called and asked about our HSLDA member discount and they lowered our premium by approx $95 per year...coincidentally the same amount as our HSLDA annual membership fee. Thought you'd want to know!!'" 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