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Illinois Home Educators Face “Guilty Until Proven Innocent” Label
Wednesday morning, State Representative Terra Costa-Howard (D-Lombard) brought before the Illinois House’s Education Policy Committee an amendment to her “Anti-Homeschool Act’ that would - for the first time - require Illinois homeschooling families to register their students with the state.
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Tagged Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Anti-Homeschool Act, Carmen Longoria-Green, Coalition for Responsible Home Education, HB 2827, Home Education, Homeschool Legal Defense Association, Illinois General Assembly, Patrick Henry College, Terra Costa Howard, The Homeschool Act
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AGAIN: Speak Out TODAY Against HB 2827
State Representative Terra Costa Howard (D-Lombard) has filed another amendment to HB 2827, "The Homeschool Act," in hopes of picking up more votes among her colleagues in the Illinois House. They are working overtime to try to pass this bill out of the House and move it over to the Illinois Senate this week.
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Tagged HB 2827, Homeschool Legal Defense Association, Terra Costa Howard, Will Estrada
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Hasidic Schools – A Lesson Regarding School Choice
The first compulsory attendance laws in America were introduced by Horace Mann in Massachusetts in 1852. This created a shift from what I consider to be true “public schools,” which were open to the public, but controlled by parents in local communities, to “government schools,” which we have had ever since. Today’s schools are funded by the government, regulated, and controlled by the government, and all of the standards are set and enforced by government dictates.
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Tagged A BEKA, ACE School of Tomorrow, Amish, Bob Jones Press, Christian Law Association, Common Core, education choice, ESAs, Hasidic schools, Homeschool Legal Defense Association, Horace Mann, Pierce v. Society of Sisters, Protestants, Rutherford Institute, virtual charter schools, Vouchers, Wisconsin v. Yoder, yeshivas
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Public School Authorities Bully Would-Be Home Educators
Illinois parents, along with millions of other parents across the nation, were tossed into an at-home learning environment this past spring that the public school coined “Homeschooling.” The public schools were ill-equipped for this change-over, despite years of “e-learning days” where public school children learned how to use the software during snow days and other days off.
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Tagged COVID–19, Department of Children and Family Services, Dr. Chris Dougherty, Dr. Tony Evans, e-learning, Homeschool Legal Defense Association, Homeschoolers Encouraging Loving Parents, homeschooling, Illinois Christian Home Educators, illinoisreportcard.com, Individualized Educational Plans, Regional Office of Education, ZOOM meetings
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