Homeschool Family Alerts!

Link to Rep Slater reading letter from juvenile judges: https://youtu.be/q_1NolAbrWs?si=dUEHbqB7ck_VTRpw
TN’s House Bill 1823: https://legiscan.com/TN/bill/HB1823/2025

TN’s Senate Bill 1968: https://legiscan.com/TN/bill/SB1968/2025

Lowe hopes to stop what he considers a loophole in Tn. The bill was drafted by a juvenile judge. Here is an article I penned in 2023 outlining how this is already happening to parents.

Diane’s information for our live portion:
A series of Substack articles written by a man named McQuaid for the CT Capitol Dispatch:
First article: https://capitoldispatch.substack.com/p/in-focus-when-connecticuts-lack-of

CT’s Homeschool Network response to a series of articles attacking homeschooling: https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Media-Claims–FOIA-Records–and-the-Gap-Legislators-Should-Examine.html?soid=1140823210111&aid=I09TvkmEzaY

Black’s Law on parental rights, parental liability:
Rights: (see attachment #3, from the US Gov’ts Ethics Office, below)
Liability: https://thelawdictionary.org/parental-liability/
How do parental rights/liability tie to tort reform (mentioned before now and happening all across America): 
GA: https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/georgias-tort-reform-battle-parents-rally-against-proposed-legal-changes
FL: https://www.floridabar.org/the-florida-bar-journal/neither-goose-nor-gander-why-tort-reform-fails-all/
IL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk3tLFPdoeU
(Brief description:  American Potential, host David From talks with Christie Black and Matt Black, Illinois homeschool parents who became grassroots leaders in the fight against a proposed state mandate that would have forced homeschooling families to register with the government—backed by fines and even jail time for parents who failed to comply. )
SC: House Bill 4757 (on parental rights): https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess126_2025-2026/bills/4757.htm
AND
SC’s House Bill 3974 (goes after ‘private schools’ and seeks to increase community full service schools):
https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess126_2025-2026/bills/3974.htm

https://tennesseeconservativenews.com/william-slater-to-force-aggressive-intervention-on-homeschool-parents-by-brandon-lewis/

Rep. Slater’s testimony (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_1NolAbrWs

From the CT Capitol Dispatch, the 3 other articles about state views on homeschooling:
Check out our previous entries in Capitol Dispatch’s ongoing ‘In Focus’ series on Homeschool Regulation.

–Part 1: CT Has Among the Weakest Homeschool Oversight in New England

-Part 2: How School Employees Help Alert Authorities to Child Abuse

-Part 3: High Rate of DCF Involvement Found Among Homeschooled CT Children

General pro/con aspects of tort reform: https://www.justia.com/injury/negligence-theory/tort-reform/

The Civil Rights Act of 1983, Section 1981 (we’ve featured many times to be used as a parental recourse: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/1981

The American Tort Reform Association (can help you keep up with tort reform from most angles at a federal/state level: https://atra.org/reforms/ )

OGE Designated Agency Ethics Officials by Tim Brown