Protecting Homeschool Freedom for the Next Generation
Indiana’s 2025 legislative session is underway. Our team is actively monitoring over 50 bills. One of the bills we are closely monitoring is the Parental Rights bill, SB 143. Authored by Sen. Liz Brown, this bill “provides that a governmental entity may not substantially burden certain parental rights unless the burden is in furtherance of…
As we’ve shared here previously, HB 1004 has provisions dealing with mental health issues of high schoolers with virtually no parental protections. And, virtually no penalties if anyone was sloppy with protecting confidential information. Sen. Kruse led a successful effort to get HB 1004 amended to include strong parental protections and the bill passed the…
UPDATE: Amendment #25 was pulled and rewritten as amendment #27. It was approved by the committee. Thank you for your action to protect parental rights! URGENT: Please call your State Senator to support Sen. Kruse’s Amendment #25 to HB 1004. As you already know, thanks to your calls and emails, Senate Bill 266, after a…
Currently, almost all students in Indiana go to public school kindergarten. But, parents have a choice to delay formal education until age 7. There are people who want to take that right away from parents. If the compulsory school age is lowered, all 5 and 6-year-old children will be forced to begin formal education at…
Kindergarten isn’t mandatory in Indiana, but almost all children in Indiana already begin kindergarten at age 5. It is so common to start school at age 5 that most people assume that kindergarten is mandatory when a child is eligible. Indiana educators are now pushing to lower the compulsory school age to 5. (It’s also…
Here’s a timeline of some issues that have affected Indiana home educators through the years. It’s a reminder that our liberty to educate our children at home is precious and must be continually guarded. Thank you for standing with IAHE and IAHE Action. 1904 – Indiana has the nation’s earliest homeschool court ruling in State v. Peterman. Essentially,…