Doing some early morning research on the push to regulate private home-schools in California. Who are the players? I'll leave some interesting findings in this thread as I have time. I'll tell you one thing: Mandatory vaccination is on the agenda. #noAB2756#noAB2926#Turpin13
Following news on the #Turpin13 case, one of the names that kept coming up was "The Coalition for Responsible Home Education." Homeschoolers know how much that case received national coverage and with each headline having "Homeschool" stuffed into the title. So who are they?
Rachel Coleman also co-founded Homeschooling's Invisible Children (HIC). "HIC works to catalogue horrific cases of abuse and neglect and raise awareness on this issue while CRHE works to edu and promote the need for adequate safeguards for at-risk children who are homeschooled"
So Rachel Coleman is the co-founder of both the HIC and CRHE. Let's learn more about these orgs. HIC says "We believe - there need to be checks and balances for homeschooled children..." and endorse policy recommendations made by #CRHE. Let's see what those policies are #NoAB2926
While there are many things to be concerned about re: these recommended policies, I've highlighted a couple related to vaccination. #NoAB2926
So in summary: Many of the sources in mainstream media covering the #Turpin13 case refer to this organization as the authority on protecting children from homeschool "abuse" and the direction for policy changes. But who exactly is behind this organization? Besides for Ms Coleman?
Let's see who Rachel Coleman founded CRHE with. Here's the press release her and Heather Doney put out together in 2013. Then, let's go look at some of the other staff and see just how "nonpartisan" this organization really is. responsiblehomeschooling.org/for-immediate-…
Legislative Policy Analyst and Board Member at CRHE - meet Kathryn Brightbill. She says she was once on the Republican Committee. After Googling her name, you quickly learn she co-authored an opined piece at LA Times with Rachel Coleman . . . AND . . . she's not a republican.
And now meet Policy Analyst and consultant for an "independent progressive activist team in Washington DC, called 20/20 Visions," Hännah Ettinger.
"Over the next ten years, a DECLINE of 181,000 in total enrollment is projected, if current trends in fertility and migration hold, resulting in total enrollment of 6,040,000 by 2026-27."
According to the organization (#CRHE) pushing for homeschool regulation, it's about 200k. Interestingly, that's about the amount they're expecting enrollment to decline in next 10 yrs.