HSC would like to welcome our newest member, David Engle, to the Board. David
and his wife Katzi have been homeschooling for 27 years and been an active part
of HSC since it's inception. Please join me in welcoming David to our
Board!
Sarah Sample
President, HSC Board of Directors
The HomeSchool Association of California:
HSC welcomes anyone with an interest in homeschooling.
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Filing the Private School Affidavit and Withdrawing a Child From Public School
Be a part of HSC!
Come join us at the park for our next open board meeting. We will be in Chico, Ca on October 24th. This is a great opportunity to learn more about HSC and how you can get involved. Volunteers are vital to making things happen and we’ll discuss volunteer opportunities at the next meeting. We encourage you to join us. Next year's meeting months and areas will be announced soon. We will be meeting all over California. Look for us to be at a park near you. We are happy to announce the exact location and time for our board meeting on the 24th of October! The picnic will begin at Noon and the meeting will begin at 1pm and will be in the Cedar Grove Picnic Area at Bidwell Park in Chico, CA. There is a large BBQ pit with several grills, so we encourage you to bring something to BBQ for lunch! We will keep a separate section of the grill meat free for our vegetarians in the group :-) We will be getting there earlier to start the coals, so it should be ready to go at noon. Please bring any supplies you will need such as plates, cups, cutlery, etc. We are just bringing the coals and the trash bags! Also, please plan on BBQing your own food, we will not have a designated cook. There is a large field next to the picnic area for the kids to play in. The park does not allow any wheeled vehicles in the field (bikes, scooters, etc) because it tears it up, so please don't bring any of these. Please do bring, any sort of ball game equipment, frisbees, board and/or card games, imaginations, etc! Dogs are allowed in the park as long as they are on a leash. There are 9 picnic benches, but we're not sure what the turnout is going to be like, so please bring a folding chair if you have one.
Subject: Implementation of new work permit law We previously announced that Governor Schwarzenegger had signed into law AB66, a bill introduced by Assemblymember Joel Anderson. AB66 makes it possible for all private schools to issue work permits to their own students (although parents may not issue permits to their own children).
Please note that any work permits issued to students for the current 2009-2010 school year will not be affected by the new law. They will remain valid to the end of the current school year. These students would only be covered by the new law if they seek a permit for the following school year.
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HSC announcement
Dear HSC Members Past and Present,
We would like to pass on some good news and a request that you write
our governor. Information from our legal team follows. Thank you for
your time and interest.
After a good amount of work by some homeschooling groups in the state, a
bill, AB 66, has been passed unanimously by both the Assembly and Senate
that would make it much easier for homeschooled students to get work
permits. As you know, currently public school officials have the
exclusive right to issue work permits (although they sometimes delegate
this authority to very large private schools), and they have often made
it very hard for homeschoolers who are outside the public programs to
get them.
The bill, introduced by a Republican from San Diego, Joel Anderson (the
same assemblymember who sponsored the pro-homeschooling resolution
during the homeschooling legal case last year), makes it much simpler
for homeschoolers to get work permits by allowing private schools to
issue permits to their own students (although a parent could not issue
one to his/her own child; another administrator of the school would have
to do it, so people forming their own private schools would need to add
one administrator who is not a parent). You can see it at
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_introduced.php> AB 66 text
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_introduced.php> .
Assemblymember Anderson has asked the homeschool and private school
organizations in the state to write letters to the Governor encouraging
him to sign the bill into law. He would also like it if interested
individuals would write as well. A sample letter is given below, but
feel free to change it. Letters should be printed out and faxed to the
Governor's office at 916-558-3160. The letter is written assuming the
sender has a student in private school. If your child is not in private
school, you can certainly change it to say that you are a voter in
California and are writing to ask . . .
If you have any questions about this bill, please feel free to write to
me at hsc-legislative@hsc.org <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CA-Homeschooling-HSC/post?postID=HafcmdAtaKBFB59vBKNDMJTN6LibdGmXu5_aLFiaHsv1AxQ6SKyAp08WrFLPB2xKtJZRuFFnem0eIXA00uBpNek>.
Debbie Schwarzer
HSC Legislative Chair
September 3, 2009
The Honorable Arnold Schwarzenegger
Office of The Governor
State Capitol
Sacramento, CA 95814
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger,
I am a parent of a student enrolled in a California private school, and
I am writing to ask you to sign AB 66 (Anderson) into law.
AB 66 is a much-needed step toward standardizing the method of issuing
work permits to public and private school students in California by
amending Education Code §49110.
As you must know, many high school students want jobs outside of their
studies, both to gain valuable real world experience and to help with
family finances. Education Code §49110 spells out the conditions
under which public school officials can issue work permits to students.
Generally, the school must be satisfied both that the student is doing
well at school and is attending regularly, and that the job will not
interfere with the student's studies. Under current law, however, it is
often very hard for private school students, even if they are doing very
well and have the approval and support of their schools and parents, to
get work permits. Public school officials often refuse to issue them
because the students aren't enrolled in their school, even though there
is no place else for the students to obtain the permits.
AB 66 corrects this unfairness by letting private schools issue work
permits to their qualified students, just as public schools can. This
makes sense, since the private school in which a student is enrolled
will have a much better understanding of the student's academic
qualifications and ability to handle outside employment. AB 66 also lets
private schools issue these permits to meet their own calendars, which
aren't always the same as those of the public schools.
Thank you for your support.
__________________________
[your name]
[your address]
HSC is excited to announce Jerry Salcido as our new
Legal Chairperson!
Homeschooling father of four, Jerry Salcido is the legal chair and a member of the HSC legal team based in the San Francisco Bay area. He considers himself, along with the other volunteer attorneys on the HSC legal team, as HSC’s watch dog. The HSC legal team—in addition to responding to a wide array of legal questions from parents, educators, and government officials regarding homeschooling in California—keeps a watchful eye on the California Legislature and the judicial system to ensure that the right to homeschool is protected. He believes homeschooling provides so many benefits for parents, children, and for society in general, that to remove the homeschooling alternative would replace those benefits with a detriment of equal magnitude.
Our mailing adress:
HSC
P.O.Box 77873
Corona, Ca 92877
or call:
(888)472-4440