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A task force of group leaders will be meeting on February 7 to plan a course
of action to recommend to New Jersey homeschoolers, so no immediate action is
needed. A message will be posted after that meeting to list suggested actions
and to provide updates.
Until then, it is important to get the word out to all New Jersey homeschoolers
and let them know about this bill introduced on January 26, 2004 and sponsored
by Asseblywoman Loretta Weinberg of District 37 (Bergen). This bill will require
certain testing and medical examinations of homeschooled children.
Here is the current text of the bill (line numbering as submitted):
ASSEMBLY, No. 1918
State of New Jersey
211th Legislature
INTRODUCED JANUARY 26, 2004
Sponsored by:
Asseblywoman LORETTA WEINBERG
District 37 (Bergen)
1 An Act concerning home-schooled children and
supplementing
2 chapters 7C of Title 18A of the New Jersey
Statutes.
3
4 Be It Enacted by the Senate and General
Assembly of the State
5 of New Jersey:
6
7 1. A home-schooled child shall be administered
each of the
8 Statewide assessment tests required by the State of public
school
9 pupils that are appropriate for the grade level of the
child. The tests
10 shall be administered in a school of the resident school district.
11
12 2. The parents or guardians of a
home-schooled child shall provide
13 documentation to the resident district board of education
no later than
14 September 1 of each year that the child has undergone an
annual
15 medical examination.
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17 3. The State Board of Education shall
promulgate rules and
18 regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act,"
P.L. 1968
19 c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) which are necessary to
effectuate the
20 provisions of this act.
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22 4. This act shall take effect
immediately.
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24
25
STATEMENT
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27 This bill provides that a home-schooled child must be
administered
28 each of the Statewide assessment tests required by the
State of public
29 school pupils that are appropriate for the grade level of
the child. The
30 tests would be administered in a school of the resident
school district.
31 In additions, the bill requires the parents or guardians of
a home-
32 schooled child to provide documentation to the resident
board
33 of education no later than September 1 of each year that
the child has
34 undergone an annual medical examination.
Please help distribute this information to as many New Jersey homeschoolers as
you can. Be sure to visit
www.unschooling.org/UnNet for continuing updates. To read a response to the
bill by New Jersey homeschoolers, go to
Homeschoolers Response to New Jersey Assembly Bill: A1918
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