From one blue state parent to another, activist In California Warn Illinois families to pass a bill proposed by their state legislature that would create more regulations and penalties for family-educated parents. It’s the latest high-profile battle involving school choices, the Donald Trump campaign.
“Illinois, California, Colorado, they’re all competing with each other. They’re homeschooling, just as they’re following public schools,” California parent rights activist Sonja Shaw said in a video posted to X on Wednesday. “They’re attacking families, depriving parents of their rights, and failing to push their radical agenda in the reading, writing and math of our children.”
The one in dispute is HB2827The Homeschool Act, if parents fail to register their children in the Homeschool Declaration Form, the bill will register for the nearest public school they would otherwise attend. Failure to do so will be considered truant of school and parents can be fined up to 30 days.
The bill passed a party-based House Education Committee on Wednesday, but passed a major obstacle in a partisan vote Wednesday, despite 50,000 opposition witnesses slipping and only 1,000 supporters, including the Illinois State Board of Education.
Hundreds of people protested against the House of Representatives Act of 2827, known as the Homeschool Act. in the Illinois State Capitol. (Fox News)
Parents in California oppose a similar bill that failed to disengage the commission in the state legislature in 2018, AB 2756, Only after hearing three hours of testimony from parents and home students. Opponents say the Democratic-led bill would require all homeschool families in the state to comply with involuntary home checks, after which Child abuse case.
“It’s calculated. That’s how they do it. They do it at incremental rates, slowly taking control, and people sit down and think their kids are safe, that doesn’t affect them.” He is a Chino school board member and runs for state’s dean of public education. “Every parent needs to participate in this battle. If we don’t stand together now, there will be nothing to fight for our children in the future. Please participate. Please speak out. Please speak out. Please show up because our children deserve this fight.”
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Homeschool families said they were under attack in Illinois. (via Getty Image iStock)
Will Estrada, senior legal counsel for the Home School Legal Defense Association, told Fox News Wednesday that the language of the bill is “an open-ended for unelected, irresponsible bureaucracy so that different regulations can be written.”
“If the bill has passed the law, restrictions on homeschool and private school families will be expanded in the coming years,” Estrada said after testifying at a hearing on Wednesday. “The records of home students show that we are doing well academically, socially, emotionally, so why are we messing with them? That’s the problem. This bill is the solution to the problem.”
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Democrats say the bill, which includes part of it, requires parents to transfer textbooks if they suspect their children have not received proper education – will strengthen supervision of family education.
Democratic Rep. Terra Costa Howard Allsides, Title “How the Illinois drive for family education puts children at risk.” The report includes cases of abuse, which was ignored because the child is not in school.
Conservatives at the Illinois Convention seen here expressed opposition to the bill. (iStock)
However, opponents of the bill were postponed, and he said at the hearing that home-educated students were at risk of abuse, not in the public school system.
“I believe the bill will help protect abused and neglected children and leave parents free to decide how best to meet their children’s educational needs,” Tanner Lovett, an opponent of the bill, said Wednesday.
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The Illinois Homeschool Bill will now head to the state House for a floor vote. If the House and Senate pass, it will land on the table Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, Democrats see potential for the 2028 presidential hopes.
President Trump is expected to sign an executive order in a Thursday executive order to remove the federal Department of Education.
