Weigh in on ESEA and Title 1 Bill S 306

[RosieCotton]

A friend sent me this link.

I know most of us like having control of our schools and curriculum.

 

Reclassifying home school as private has come up before and has gone nowhere.

 

Just curious what you think.

I know similar tactics have failed in other states, yet it keeps coming back around.

 

Another claim of education for every child program. Can't they think of a new slogan?

 

Not a Cruz fan so please  don't make this a political thread. :)

 

 

https://unmasker4maine.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/hoge-anita-letter-openlettertosenatorcruz.pdf

[Guest]

I don't know anything about that bill or state, so probably this isn't pertinent.

 

But all homeschools unafiliated with a public charter are legally considered private schools in California. It's awesome and easy and not onerous at all.

[Mergath]

Apparently even HSLDA supports it, so it must be spectacularly non-controversial for everyone but the most paranoid of the tinfoil hat crowd. 

 

http://www.hslda.org/Legislation/National/2015/s306/default.asp

[MomatHWTK]

Homeschoolers are considered private schools in my state.    

[Farrar]

I don't know anything about that bill or state, so probably this isn't pertinent.

 

But all homeschools unafiliated with a public charter are legally considered private schools in California. It's awesome and easy and not onerous at all.

 

It's a federal bill, not a state one. Just fyi.

[Farrar]

I don't feel like I understand even half of that. Way to use absurd rhetoric.

 

You know it's bad when the HSLDA explanation is simpler and less gloom and doom.

 

So the gist of it, as I understand, is that because these savings accounts (similar to health savings accounts) will be extended to homeschoolers, it's potentially opening up the door to more regulation? And they have specific examples that seem completely bonkers because they're so unworkable. Which is, I assume, the point of the letter, yet is probably not at all what's intended by the bill. I am curious how it would practically work. Or for a more clear explanation of any potential pitfalls with this. Homeschools already are private schools in so many states yet they're not required to do many things that private schools have to do, like, say, ADA accessible entries and so forth.