Please contact YOUR assembly members ASAP
Please contact YOUR assembly members ASAP
AB19 is being voted on today at 1pm. You may remember, this is the bill the Dept of Ed brought forth and used as a stance that they are over homeschoolers. The assembly committee bought in! Meanwhile, this same thing was tried over on the senate side, and THEY listened and struck out the homeschool section.
Action Alert- call the assembly ed committee, email them TODAY and tell them to strike out section one in AB19 before they vote on it.
Write to the Assembly Education Committee:Shannon.BilbrayAxelrod@asm.state.nv.us, Brittney.Miller@asm.state.nv.us, beatrice.duran@asm.state.nv.us, Edgar.Flores@asm.state.nv.us, Michelle.Gorelow@asm.state.nv.us, Elaine.Marzola@asm.state.nv.us, rochelle.nguyen@asm.state.nv.us, Selena.Torres@asm.state.nv.us, Alexis.Hansen@asm.state.nv.us, Melissa.Hardy@asm.state.nv.us, Lisa.Krasner@asm.state.nv.us, Richard.McArthur@asm.state.nv.us, Jill.Tolles@asm.state.nv.us
Example Email:
I am a homeschooling parent and am opposed to any changes to the homeschooling laws. AB19 seeks to change both homeschool and public school laws, with no understanding or accommodation of the differences between the two. Further, no homeschoolers were consulted prior to this proposed change. The Nevada homeschool community does NOT want the verbiage changed and would like to be removed from this bill all together. Please leave our laws alone.
There is now a second bill threatening the constitutional rights of parents choosing to homeschool their children separate from public school law.
Of primary purpose, SB194, Section 6, will modify the required areas of instruction for homeschool students with the addition of civics. While this may seem innocuous, Nevada Homeschool Network contends that it is anything but.
AB19 Update – Your voice has been heard at the Capitol.
Nevada Homeschool Network (NHN) advocates for Nevada families who have chosen to direct the education of their children. We are Nevada’s only advocacy group pertaining to homeschooling. We are in opposition to AB19 and will outline the reasons below.
1) This bill includes homeschooled children, yet homeschoolers were not consulted.
Nevada Homeschool Network has been in existence since the year 2000 and
has a major online presence. We have worked with various legislators over the
years. We are VERY concerned that we did not have a voice in this writing.
2) We oppose the idea of mandating topics du’jour, to homeschoolers.
3) We understand that in 2017 SB249 added in some of these topics…but it was for
PUBLIC SCHOOLED Students. There is no reason to add homeschoolers in.
Nevada Homeschool Network (NHN) strives to advocate for homeschool freedom and the right of each family to direct the education of their own children as they see best. It is our intent to respond to the wishes, concerns and interests of the homeschooling community, and to report on legislative, legal and other matters relevant to homeschooling and family education.
1) Share Your opinion https://www.leg.state.nv.us/
It is our goal is to get 500 OPPOSE/NOs on AB19
And thankfully homeschool freedom and a parent’s right to decide whether their child is ready for school at age 5 or wait until 6 or even 7, as allowed in law, remains intact. Homeschool parents will still submit the NOI to Homeschool to the superintendent of schools in the district where they child lives when he/she turns 7 years old (or within 10 days of withdrawing a child from a public school prior to age 7).
In addition, private, self-funded homeschooling was again protected from being included in the failed attempt to fund the NV-ESA program originally passed in 2015 but the funding mechanism for the program was found unconstitutional by the Nevada Supreme Court in 2016.
It is also important to note that in 2015 the Republicans controlled both the Senate and the Assembly as well as the Governorship. However, due to the 2016 election results, in 2017 the Democrats controlled both the Senate and Assembly though not the Governorship.
As always, NHN worked with HSLDA to oppose this bill. This session we issued joint statements and “Calls to Action” via email alerts and other social media outlets… Nevada homeschool parents and friends responded in great numbers. Nevada parents made known their displeasure with this flagrant display of power against parental rights. As Mike Smith, HSLDA President said in his wrap-up letter,“This happened only because of your actions of writing letters, emails, making visits to the legislature, and your phone calls. Over 370 of you voiced your opposition to AB 186 on the Nevada Legislature opinion page. This is monumental.”
Click here for more information on events surrounding the defeat of AB 186.
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Click here for ongoing updates and information on events surrounding the NV-ESA and here for info on Federal involvement in the “government funded school choice” movement.
~BarbaraDragon
NHN Officer Emerita (active)