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House Education Committee
What Homeschoolers Can Do


When the House Education Committee has met in the past, members of the House supportive of homeschooling suggested homeschoolers not pack the meeting, but instead send representatives from support groups. HSLDA recommended that everyone attend. HEIR, GHEA, and HSLDA were represented on the agenda. A variety of support group representatives attended.

This legislative committee will acquire many important facts, statistics, surveys, and reports. However, its members still may not have a clear picture of the parents and adults who as individuals with their families have made the commitment to homeschool.

To clarify that picture, each one of us can write a one-page letter to the chairman and other members of the House Education Committee and send a copy to our individual House Representative by the day before the next meeting.

The courteous and sincere written expression of personal convictions about home education may touch the hearts as well as the minds of our state representatives.

Anyone who has been touched by the value of homeschooling including teachers, grandparents, other relatives, friends, and neighbours can also write the legislators and this committee!

See the letter forms, as a guide to addressing and closing your personal message.

In its capacity as an information resource, HEIR will continue to provide homeschoolers with information that can broaden the opportunities to participate in the legislative process on behalf of homeschooling.

Also see HEIR's "Primer" on Individual Lobbying

House Ed. Committee Studied Homeschoolers on July 29, 1997

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