Protecting Homeschool Freedom for the Next Generation
Indiana Association of Home Educators (IAHE) receives many questions from new homeschoolers. Unfortunately, a frequent question that they receive relates to a form that some schools are misapplying. When a high school student leaves the public school to begin home education, only then should the school ask them to sign the form. Often parents of…
IAHE Action recently received questions related to the National Household Education Survey from the U.S. Census Bureau on behalf of the National Center for Education Statistics within the U.S Department of Education. Some homeschool families in Indiana have reported that they have received this survey as many as four times. We asked Home School Legal…
This post is our fifth of nine installments regarding the transcript from the Indiana Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights hearing that was held on February 17, 2016. Neither Indiana Association of Home Educators (IAHE) nor IAHE Action knew about this meeting until after the fact. You may read our other posts…
IAHE Action Board member, Camille Cantwell, recently spoke on her life, parental rights and home education on the RadioNext internet program with Dr. Mark Eckel. It was very informative as she covered a variety of topics from parenting to homeschool liberty to IAHE Action’s work at the Statehouse on behalf of homeschool families. You can…
During the recent IAHE Action Government Affairs panel at the 2016 IAHE Convention, State Representative Tom Washburne (R-HD 64 Evansville) mentioned there is a difference between freedom and liberty. We asked him if he would share his thoughts with home educators. “Give me freedom, or give me death!” — right? Wrong. We all know…
IAHE Action will host a book club, and those who are interested may read through classic books about liberty with our Government Affairs team. If we are going to defend liberty, we must understand it. Since we are homeschoolers, we know that our time for ourselves is limited, so we will read through a work…
This post is our fourth of nine installments. If you would like to read more, here’s our original post and the first, second, and third installments. We will post more after the IAHE Convention on April 29-30, 2016. Support the IAHE Convention to help protect Indiana homeschool freedom. TESTIMONY: Pg. 94. MR. DOUGLAS: “Do we know what percentage…
This post is our third installment. If you want to read more, here’s our original post, and the first and second installments. TESTIMONY: Pg. 87 Ms. Hanger of Children’s Policy and Law Initiative of Indiana. “I do want to point out that some of the rates are involved with charter schools and the schools that Diana…
This is a continuation of the testimony from here. TESTIMONY: Pg. 80. “We actually based our thesis on the question of what happens to African American students from low income marginalized communities living in single female head of household with high crime when they accept the option of home schooling in place of an expulsion….
U.S. COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS INDIANA ADVISORY COMMITTEE SCHOOL-TO-PRISON PIPELINE IN INDIANA This is the first installment in this series. IAHE Action blogged about this hearing in March. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Regional Programs Unit sent Indiana Association of Home Educators (IAHE) the 600+ page transcript of the hearing and has given IAHE the…