Education Committee – Meet Illinois Homeschoolers

Posted on 02/10/2011 by admin

Illinois homeschoolers have been busy, as have secretaries, aides and the Illinois Senators themselves in speaking with private school advocates or reading their concerns the last several days. 

Senator Maloney's bill SB 136 has been moved along to the Education Committee.  Oddly, the Education Committee issued the Hearing information in this manner:

97th General Assembly
Hearing Notice For Education
     
Members    Notice of Hearing    Bills     
 
Hearing Scheduled for Feb 15, 2011
Chairperson     James Meeks
Vice-Chairperson     Kimberly Lightford
Minority Spokesperson     David Luechtefeld
Scheduled Date:    Feb 15, 2011 10:45AM
Location:    212 Capitol
Springfield, IL
Posting Date:    Feb 09, 2011 2:26PM
Subject Matter:    Registration of Home Schooled Students in Illinois.

The Education Committee has changed the intent for this bill from this description copied below on the ilga.gov site to "Registration of Home Schooled Students in Illinois", as shown above. 

 "Amends the School Code. Requires the parents or legal guardians of children attending non-public schools, a defined term, or private or parochial schools to annually register their children with the State Board of Education, in conformance with procedures prescribed by the State Board of Education"

Very odd and doesn't seem appropriate to target homeschoolers within the private school community.  That would be like singling out Catholic private schools or  Montessori private schools from all the rest of us.  It shouldn't be applicable in considering the 1950 Illinois Supreme Court ruling that set the precedence of Illinois homeschools being private schools.  Balances of power or checks and balances should have some significance in the rule of law. 

It seems useful to send a nicely worded email or letter laying out the reasons why we don't like this bill and send it via email or fax to all the Education Committee members and your Senator.

I just received this in my email box from Laurie Bluedorn (see how busy we are) and this is great information to use in your letter :

From Cedra Crenshaw's Facebook Page and the Stop SB 136 Facebook Page
Full text of SB 136: http://ilga.gov/legislation/97/SB/PDF/09700SB0136lv.pdf
State Senator Edward Maloney (D-Chicago)  has introduced SB136 which would require non-public school students to register annually with the state. This would affect private and homeschool students.
When interviewed, Senator Maloney said, “We're not going for the private school students, we're going to change that [in the proposal].  What we want to know is where the homeschoolers are.  It's as simple as that,"
   * Call Senator Mahoney at 773-881-4180 or 217-782-5145 and demand he withdraw this unnecessary government overreach.
Talking Points:
   * Homeschoolers average 2009 ACT scores, 22.5, beat the national average of 21.1.
   * Homeschoolers are already required to comply with significant substantive state mandates.
   * Parents who choose to homeschool are taking the ultimate responsibility to educate their children.
   * Senator Mahoney should be focused on fixing the Chicago Public Schools which had a 2010 graduation rate of only 55.8% and spent over $11,000/student.
   * Requiring homeschool parents to register with the state will do nothing to positively impact their children’s education.
   * Annual reporting will add another opportunity for the state to unreasonably burden responsible parents.

Here's sponsor Senator Maloney's contact information: Office Phone:  (773) 881-4180(773) 881-4243 FAX  Email:  maloney@senatedem.state.il.us

Senate Education Committee 

James T. Meeks  Office Phone: (708) 862-1515 Fax: (708) 862-4745   Online email contact:  http://www.senatedem.ilga.gov/index.php/contact-me-meeks

Kimberly A. Lightford Office Phone: 708-343-7444 Fax: 708-343-7400 Email:  lightford@senatedem.state.il.us

Gary Forby Office Phone:  (618) 439-2504 FAX (618) 438-3704   Email:  forby@senatedem.state.il.us

Susan Garrett Office Phone: (847) 433-2002 Email:  susan@garrett98.com

Iris Y. Martinez  Office Phone: 773-489-2020  Fax: 773-489-2024Email:  martinez@senatedem.state.il.us

John G. Mulroe  Chicago Office Phone: (773) 763-3810(773) 763-3881 FAX  Springfield Office: (217) 782-1035(217) 782-2115 FAX

online email contact:  http://www.senatedem.ilga.gov/index.php/contact-me-mulroe

David Luechtefeld  Office Phone: (618) 243-9014(618) 243-5376 FAX  Email:  sendavel@midwest.net

Now here's the thing about these two great Senators listed below.  They have already stated they oppose this bill.  Send them a different letter and make it a thank you.  They deserve it.

Kyle McCarter  Decatur Phone: 217-428-4068 Fax: 217-428-4089 Greenville Phone: 618-664-9108 Fax: 618-664-9112   Email:  senatormccarter51@att.net

Suzi Schmidt  Office Phone: 847-377-2300 Fax: 847-356-9668 Email:  SSchmidt@co.lake.il.us

Now I'll put these email addresses in a nice line for you.  After you paste those in, go to Vote Smart and find your Senator's email address.  Stick that in there along with your lovely letter and hit Send.  We want our Senator friends and allies to have the opportunity for lots of email and fax waving going on to show the proponents of this bill.  (We'll recycle, we promise.)

forby@senatedem.state.il.us

lightford@senatedem.state.il.us

garrett@senatedem.state.il.us

martinez@senatedem.state.il.us

sendavel@midwest.net

Thank you:

senatormccarter51@att.net

SSchmidt@co.lake.il.us

Senator Meeks and Mulroe like online contact forms.  Don't forget about the Chairman and Senator Mulroe and make sure you get a copy sent to you. 

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As Suspected

Posted on 02/09/2011 by Susan

Illinois Review's Fran Eaton got off the phone with Senator Maloney yesterday regarding SB 136 – requiring all non-public schools to register with the IL State Board of Education. She reported:

Maloney says: "We're not after private schools, we want home schoolers"

"We're not going for the private school students, we're going to change that [in the proposal].  What we want to know is where the homeschoolers are.  It's as simple as that," Maloney said from his Springfield office.
Maloney said the lack of accountability of homeschoolers came to his attention when a family member mentioned another was homeschooling.  He asked about the procedure of homeschooling and was surprised to find out homeschoolers in Illinois had no accountability to local authorities for the students in their home schools.

There doesn't seem to be an inclination to look at educational results from homeschoolers. The only goal seems to be satisfaction of the  Regional Offices of Education Superintendents' wish for a bigger public school realm.  A decently ranked higher learning establishment – the University of Illinois – has a specific page promoting their institution to homeschoolers.  Just one example that seems rather apparent of traditional learning results from the homeschooling community.  (Senator Maloney is the chair of the Higher Education Committee.)

 I wouldn't be resting too much if my children attended a brick and mortar private school with such small regard for legislation documentation.  This is far from done and homeschoolers should now be inspired to not wait for someone else to take care of this.

Read more in the Southtown Star:   Homeschool parents ask, ‘Why state registration?’

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We Need Fiscal Accountability in Illinois, Not More Demands from the State

Posted on 02/08/2011 by Susan

The current and majorly concerning issue in the Illinois homeschool community is the attempt – by Chicago Senator Maloney's introduction of SB 136 – to pull all private schools into the public school realm by requiring non-public school children's parents or guardians to register with the Illinois State Board of Education.  Homeschoolers – our sub-group of Illinois private schools – have hackles raised because we already know there are anti-homeschoolers in the public school realm.  They have already been coming after us.  But in the past, they haven't asked all private schools to fill out non-mandated registration forms like they've been requesting from homeschoolers. Until now. Now it's a sorry state of affairs times two.

Even though Illinois homeschoolers (private schools via a 1950 Illinois Supreme Court ruling) are not required to register – years ago the Illinois State Board of Education created a non-mandated Home School Registration Form.  This form asks for information regarding names and dates of birth of your children along with curriculum used.  Many – probably most Regional Offices of Education (a public school network subordinate to the Illinois State Board of Education) request homeschool families file this annually and the paperwork (if completed) sits in the Regional Office of Education and the Data Analysis and Progress Reporting Department of the IL State Board of Education.  The vast majority of homeschoolers refuse to fill out these forms because we have better ways to spend our time.  Plus we figure these school authorities surely have more important issues to pursue in their own backyard.  We like to help our public employees do their job better.
We shouldn't be complacent, assume or take anything for granted. If SB 136 is dropped in the Assignments Committee, it'll be because private schoolers made their voices heard. Not because we sat by assuming it's not going to pass. Our voices are being heard. Terri Koyne makes important points in the IR and her conversations with the local Regional Office of Education Superintendent are duly noted:

4. Who is going to pay for all this tracking and record keeping?  I was just told a couple of weeks ago that my Regional Superintendent of Schools has neither the resources nor the man power to handle the truant students in his district.  If this is true, how are they going to afford the mountain of paperwork and reports that will have to be taken care of with this piece of legislation?
A mentor of mine has always asked when a seemingly harmless bill comes up for a vote, “How do you boil a frog?”  You don’t throw him in a pan of boiling water.  You make him comfortable in a cool pot of water and slowly turn up the heat.  Before he knows it, he is cooked.
My point is this:  The education machine has spent the last decade making us comfortable, laying low and leaving us alone for the most part. They have spent the past year slowly turning up the heat.  The Regional Superintendents have snuck through new truancy ordinances through County Boards and daytime curfews through city councils.  Now they are looking to turn the heat up to a full boil by regulating all non-public school education.

Senator Maloney wants private schools' "important information".  Cost and overspending do not seem to be a factor in Springfield, and this appears to be about control.  Did I mention the Regional Offices of Education are lobbying for Senator Maloney's bill? At least two Regional Offices of Education have borrowed from their home counties in the past couple of years.  See Peoria and Macoupin County fiscal records.  In  our Illinois world gone mad, tyranny over families is more important than fiscal wisdom.  Why do we have Regional Offices of Education?

Representative Ricca Slone was voted out some years ago when she went after homeschoolers via legislation. But if this bill passes, it'll be too late for homeschooling freedoms in Illinois. Nothing surprises me in Illinois politics anymore. Nothing. 

Let's find out where our legislators are coming from and lay it all out.  Contact information is here.  The bill sits in the Assignments Committee now, where it could be designated to the Education Committee.  Let's kill the bill now.

We are collecting information regarding the opposition or acceptance of this bill by our Senators.  If you have information please let us know.  It's a fundamental issue.  Should Illinois homeschoolers and other private schools now report to the public school system for no good reason or should we remain free?  Wishy washy answers from our representatives will be duly noted.  Thank you to Senators Suzi Schmidt and Tom Johnson, who have registered their opposition with their constituents.

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Dragging Illinois Private Schools into Education Reform

Posted on 02/04/2011 by Susan

In Illinois, we will not assume the definition of "reform" is a positive. It's about the money and in the case of education, it's not about the learning results.

There's been some background noise over the last few months that caught my attention and made me check here and there to see what is playing out in the Capitol regarding education reform.  The Springfield Journal and Review posted an article back in December about Speaker Madigan bucking the teachers unions' fears of losing their power in Illinois. 

House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, issued a memo Dec. 2 announcing formation of the eight-member committee. Four members are Democrats and four are Republicans. The memo said nothing about the committee’s agenda, nor did it set a deadline to act.

The panel’s chairman, Rep. Linda Chapa La Via, D-Aurora, could not be reached for comment.

“The approach will be up to members of the committee,” said Madigan spokesman Steve Brown. “It was formed because the chairman and others have talked about taking a look at education reform issues that have been discussed the last several years.”

Brown likened the education reform committee to special committees formed to hear ideas about workers’ compensation and Medicaid reforms. Like those committees, the Education Reform panel is to make recommendations the General Assembly can consider before January 12 when new lawmakers are sworn into office.

I suspect that in the long run, the unions have much less to fear than those independent private schools.  SB 136 is a prime example of that.  Senator Maloney proposes all private schools must register with the IL State Board of Education.  Private schools are privately funded and managed without taking public funds. They seem to have a decent enough success rate in learning.  On the House end, Representative Chapa-La Via proposed including homeschoolers in a virtual public school bill.  When I asked a staff member if she'd discussed this with homeschoolers prior to inserting us into this bill, I was told that no, she had not. 

Senator Maloney co-chairs the Senate side of a Cullerton appointed Senate Special Committee for Education Reform with Senator Lightford.  Maloney "remains a card-carrying member of an education union to this day", according to Maloney staff.  Senator Lightford was the Senate Education Committee chair and in that role, noted this in an Oak Park-Leaves.com article:

"I would have assumed to some degree that we had accountability over how many home schoolers there were, where they were located, and that they would be tested," Lightford said.

Why would "we" (Illinois citizens) need to have "accountability" over how many homeschoolers there are?  We homeschoolers and other private schools left the system voluntarily and with thought as to what was best for our families.  On the other hand, the accountability for public schools seems to be an overwhelming responsibility already. The growth of adult education centers along with the concern President Obama has expressed over dropout rates is an issue demanding accountability.   

It doesn't make sense to anyone to register private schools except a "professional educator" – as he likes to call himself -  such as Senator Maloney. Former Senator Demuzio liked to think along those lines too.

Folks, if there's one good thing left in Illinois besides the good people and some good public schools, it's that we have great freedom to educate our children in wonderful private schools.  If you're a taxpayer, parent, grandparent, planning children in the future: Call Senator Maloney's office along with your own Senator letting them know you oppose SB 136 – the registration and reporting of private schools to the public school IL State Board of Education. You want their opposition committment as well.  Senator Suzi Schmidt committed and we are grateful.  This is one of the last bastions of freedom we have in Illinois and it's an important one.  Apparently, private schools should be attending these education reform committee hearings along with the teacher unions to see what our legislators are cooking up for us.  Homeschoolers have this one little problem though.  We don't have the union lobbying money that's so appealing to many legislators and of all things, we're trying to spend some time educating our kids.

Senator Edward Maloney contact information:

District Office: 10400 S. Western Ave. Chicago, IL 60643 (773) 881-4180 (773) 881-4243 FAX

Capitol phone: 217-782-5145

 More to read on other blogs:

Maloney anti-homeschool bill opposed in IR poll Illinois Review

What information would non-public student ISBE registration include?  Illinois Review

Non-public student registration bill sparks IL home school firestorm Illinois Review

Illinois Senate Bill Would Require Homeschoolers Register With State Thoughts of a Regular Guy

Bad Bill From Diapers to Driver's Ed

IL State Senator Ed Maloney Wants to Register Homeschoolers  Winfield 411.com

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Senator Maloney Wants Private Schools Registered

Posted on 02/01/2011 by Susan

 

Chicago's 18th District  Senator Edward Maloney has introduced  SB 136, a bill  to register all private and non-public students annually.  

This proposal changes the Illinois compulsory attendance exemption to this below.  The changes are noted with **:
 

Sec. 26-1. Compulsory school age-Exemptions. Whoever has custody or control of any child between the ages of 7 and 17 years (unless the child has already graduated from high school) shall cause such child to attend some public school in the district … provided, that the following children shall not be required to attend the public schools: 1. Any child attending a private or a parochial school where children are taught the branches of education taught to children of corresponding age and grade in the public schools, and where the instruction of the child in the branches of education is in the English language, **provided that the parents or legal guardians of the child annually register the child with the State Board of Education in accordance with procedures prescribed by the State Board of Education; **

Illinois faces dire fiscal concerns at this time and it would seem that registering private schools should be a non-priority.  From the House side, there has also been a  bill introduced by Rep. Monique D. Davis to create a Department of Education. Just for the grief given private school homeschoolers by many Regional Offices of Education, it doesn't seem prudent to add one more layer of bureaucracy to our education system. We expect our representatives to be fiscally responsible with only appropriate and necessary legislation.
Here is Senator Maloney's contact information.  We should let him know this bill is unnecessary and unwanted:

Springfield Office: Senator 18th District
119A Capitol Building Springfield, IL   62706
(217) 782-5145
(217) 557-3930 FAX District Office:
10400 S. Western Ave. Chicago, IL  60643
(773) 881-4180
(773) 881-4243 FAX 

Ht to Illinois Review who also advises us to let our own Senators know how we feel about this bill. 

 

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Update about Daytime Curfew Defeat in Carlinville

Posted on 01/24/2011 by Susan

Fortunately for homeschoolers and other young people who would like to freely walk the streets of Carlinville, the daytime curfew -also known as a truancy ordinance- was defeated by a 5-3 vote last week.

Carlinville daytime kid curfew proposal fails 

“A daytime curfew is not needed and not constitutional,” Koyne said. “The state and local school has truancy laws in place as well as truant officers, so if it is a truancy problem in public school students, they have resources to handle it.” Some of the home-school parents said it does not take them from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily to cover their school subjects because their children have one-on-one instruction. “So as your proposed ordinance is stated, once we are done with our schooling, if my 17-year-old wants to drive her and her younger siblings to the Carlinville Public Library, a resource we use a lot, before 3 p.m. on a public school day, she can't,” Koyne said.

Carlinville School District's 2009 chronic truancy rate is 1.4%, which seems to be minimal.  But there are definitely some homeschool un-friendly school authorities in the area. It appears the reason for a truancy ordinance has little to do with truancy.  Here's the voting results from the Journal-Courier:

Unlike a truancy ordinance adopted by the Macoupin County Board — which exempts home-schooled, military or private school students — Carlinville City Attorney Will Hebron said the city's proposal included “all kids.”

A motion to pass the daytime curfew failed. Those voting against it were Joe Direso, John Koster, Mark Loveless, Dave Steiner and Greg Ward. Those in favor were Sonny Albertine, Brian Mitchell and Mark Staerk.

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Daytime Curfews Persist

Posted on 01/17/2011 by admin

The Carlinville City Council is considering a daytime curfew and they're meeting tonight to discuss it.  The Macoupin County Board unanimously passed a truancy ordinance last fall leaving one to wonder. County personnel are being employed to chase down truant public school students when it’s part of the job duties of the Regional Office of Education for Calhoun, Greene, Jersey and Macoupin Counties.  Jersey County Board also passed a truancy ordinance, with 2 board members voting nay.  From The Telegraph:

The Jersey County Board approved a new truancy resolution Tuesday by a 10-2 vote. The resolution presented by the Regional Superintendent of Schools and endorsed by both of the county's school districts, Jersey and Southwestern, authorizes fines up to $100 for teens who skip school repeatedly.

Carlinville’s chronic truancy rate shows 1.4% on their school report card, and those statistics don’t seem to justify a new county or city bureaucracy for truants.  Jersey School District reports .5% chronic truancy rate.  Southwestern School District 9, also located in Jersey County, has a 1% chronic truancy rate. 

There are at least 2 truant officers employed in Carlinville and Jerseyville.  That doesn’t include the school district staff personnel who know which kids aren’t attending school and calling in with an excused absence.  The schools have all the information you could want to call on the parents or guardians and try to resolve the problem.  That is our tax money at work.

One would wonder what the purpose is for this triple public expenditure by county, city and school for the same service.  One of these southern Illinois counties’ truancy ordinances written by a Regional Superintendent  – Keri Garrett – proposed reporting homeschoolers to the Regional Office of Education. Even though homeschoolers have a freedom of movement right to go to the library, work, classes or what have you.  Private schools do not have to do ‘school hours’.  Our family has found some of our most useful learning time in the evening or weekends. 

Regional Superintendent Brian Cross seemed to have concerns his count of registered homeschoolers in Jefferson and Hamilton Counties was decreasing year to year.  At the same time, it’s been a source of uncomfortable astonishment why he and many other Regional Superintendents try to register homeschoolers, when private schools are not required by law to do so with public schools. He pushed for a daytime curfew in Mt. Vernon, and received it.  Oddly, Mt. Vernon also has a 1.4% chronic truancy rate.  Where are these hooligans roaming the streets and causing harm to businesses and citizens?

In 2009, the Carlinville school board created some unfavorable history with homeschoolers.  See Kudos to the IL Association of School Boards. 

There doesn’t seem to be a need for truancy ordinances in these towns and cities when the schools’ own statistics are studied.  Besides the damper laid on businesses who will be fined if they don’t report customers as potential truants.  Homeschooling families have been told by store employees that they shouldn’t be out during ‘school hours’.  I wouldn’t go back to a store that told my children or me that.  It also restrains homeschoolers from going out and about as many of us do in our communities.  If homeschoolers are stifled by daytime curfew ordinances and attempts to rein us in, then we’re losing one of the last bastions of educational freedom in this country.  All planted under the guise of public school truancy issues. This problem lays squarely with the public school officials and their attempts to control private schools.

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CPS Administrators Did Not Change Website Regarding Over-Compliant Demands

Posted on 12/13/2010 by admin

In 2005, then Chicago Public School CEO Arne Duncan signed off on over-compliant and onerous demands for Chicago homeschoolers.  In the country’s 3rd largest public school district, Chicago Public School administrators have some of the worst, if not the worst, unnecessary and non-mandated burdens and hassles laid out to homeschoolers by Illinois public schools.

A couple of months ago, Illinois Homeschool Freedom Watch sent a letter to the Chicago Public School headquarters regarding this problem.  The CPS Chief Officer, Flavia Hernadez, sent back a response that would look hopeful.  Except the claims were not factual.  There is nothing about voluntary in these statements below posted on their website that I just checked on again today.

The Chicago Public Schools request that parents or guardians who choose to homeschool their children provide the following documents:

  1. The Statement of Assurance provided by the Chicago Public Schools
  2. A letter to CPS which describes the manner in which you will be instructing your child at home
  3. A copy of the Data Analysis and Progress Reporting Form that was mailed to the State Board of Education.

Illinois homeschoolers don't have to do any of that above, but it surely looks like a hindrance for busy homeschoolers to fulfill.  Ms. Hernadez stated in her response to us that "we have modified our website to acknowledge that the forms linked to the website are not mandatory".  But yet, a "request" from a government official insinuates a definite "mandatory" tone. 

The Chief Officer's letter to us was also cc'ed to their lawyer, Patrick Rocks.  As an aside, Patrick Rocks got my attention from this article regarding the Chicago Virtual School approval, with his information about 'greedy homeschoolers'  "trying to become charter schools simply to get public dollars”.  But many homeschoolers have turned their backs on tax reimbursements and "free" benefits.  Some take advantage, but there are many homeschoolers who don't want to take any chances compromising our freedoms.

HSLDA was contacted by IL homeschoolers, and basically did the same thing IL Homeschool Freedom Watch did regarding the Chicago Public School authorities messing with homeschoolers. 

HSLDA apparently received the same response as us.

Related Posts:

Chicago Public Schools-Homeschool citations

Chicago Virtual Charter School

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Homeschoolers Caught in the Crossfire

Posted on 12/10/2010 by admin

Indiana homeschooler Deb Harbeson created a clever video explaining the problems created by interested parties seeking more laws to fight off the public school dropout/pushout problems created by compulsory attendance laws and other legislation.  Illinois compulsory attendance laws require seat time in the school building from 7 to 17 years of age.  The only escape from that law is an exemption, which is possible in Illinois via the use of a private or parochial school.  Homeschools fit the description of private school as determined by the Illinois Supreme Court 1950 Levisen ruling.

It appears that legislators don't mandate actual learning with the use of a compulsory education law.  Like morality, that can't be legislated.


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Illinois Homeschooler Gives Movie Review

Posted on 11/23/2010 by admin

Tori Serviss, who is home-schooled, was introduced to the J.K. Rowling phenomenon by her mom, Jean Serviss.

"I read the books to her until she was able to to read them herself," Jean said.

Tori recently visited Alnwick Castle in England. The first movie was filmed there. She is also an avid collector of memorabilia. She has wands, time turners and posters from England.

Read Tori's review in the South Town Star article. 

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