ACTION ITEM For Iowa Homeschooling Families parents and supporters: Unfriendly rule changes are being considered by the State of Iowa

A homeschooling parent from our community informs me that:

“I wanted to make you aware of the situation with the Iowa Dept of Ed that’s trying to change rules for homeschooling, making it oppressive for us. It feels like [we’re being targeted for retaliation] prolly b/c Gov Reynolds went hard on the AEA & also with the passing of the Students First Act. Neither of these even affected us homeschoolers, but… homeschoolers [can tend to] make public schools look bad!

Please pray! Tomorrow is the day of hearings! We have contacted all reps & senators though I was told by them (who were completely unaware of this!) it’s not up as a bill or law just a sneaky rule change!”

Please pray!

Our State Representative, Luana Stoltenberg is on our side, had the following to say, and has provided these links, urging us to call and make our voices heard.

“I talked with several Representatives this morning about those rules for homeschoolers. I was told to write them through the link I sent you guys. Find everyone you can to write.
There are several meetings with the BOE because they are the ones that wrote the language on the rules. Thanks.”

So, if you feel so inclined, here is where to do that, at the bottom of this link:

https://rules.iowa.gov/Notice/Details/7587C

Homeschool Iowa has teamed up with the Homeschool Legal Defense Association with these suggestions:

Chapter 31 Rules