There are some aspects of government that make it possible for homeschoolers to interact with their government on terms that allow them to preserve their freedom and autonomy. Many of these bills do not mention the home education law, but they could affect how the home education law is administered.
Privacy allows homeschooling parents to limit the information they must provide to the government, and to have control over how that information is used and who has access to it.
Transparency allows homeschooling parents to know what actions their government is taking when administering home education laws.
The process by which laws and regulations are adopted determines how much and what kind of input homeschooling parents have in the creation of laws and rules that govern home education.
Reprinted from an
AP article
published 1/17/07 in the Boston Globe:
The Right-to-Know Law Oversight Commission has been working for nearly five years to update the law for the
electronic age of e-mail, video-conferencing and computerized records. After an omnibus bill with multiple changes was
killed by the state Senate last year, the commission decided to break up the changes into several bills, so each could
be debated separately. The commission expects to present at least five separate bills this session.