LEGISTIVE WATCH:
CONNECTICUT HOMESCHOOL RIGHTS
INFORMATIONAL HEARING
If you’re a homeschooling parent—or if you simply support the right of parents to choose how to educate their children—please attend this important hearing Monday May 5, 2025.
What: Education & Children Committee – Homeschooling Informational Hearing
Where: Legislative Office Building, 300 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, CT
When: Monday, May 5 | 2:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Room: 2E
You will not be able to submit testimony to the informational hearing on Homeschooling. However we encourage EVERYONE to respectfully reach out to each legislator below.
Sample email:
Dear Members of the Education Committee,
I am writing today as a concerned parent and citizen to respectfully urge you not to create or propose new legislation regulating homeschooling in response to the tragic circumstances of the recent Waterbury case.
This deeply upsetting situation is, by all accounts, a case of severe abuse and systemic failure across multiple agencies—not a reflection of the broader homeschooling community in Connecticut. To conflate child abuse with homeschooling is both misleading and dangerous. Thousands of homeschooling families across the state provide loving, safe, and high-quality education for their children. They should not be subjected to undue scrutiny or broad regulatory overreach due to something completely unrelated.
Existing laws already provide mechanisms to intervene in cases of abuse. Strengthening inter-agency coordination and improving mandatory reporting practices would be a far more effective and appropriate response than imposing new burdens on law-abiding homeschool families.
Please preserve the educational freedom that so many Connecticut families rely on. Do not allow a single heartbreaking case to set policy precedent for an entire community.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Sincerely,
[Your Name]
[Your Town]
These representatives and senators make up the Children’s and Education Committee - send an email to everyone below:
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Also please reach out to your own legislators and express your thoughts about this hearing! Find your representatives here: https://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/menu/cgafindleg.asp
If you’re a homeschooling parent—or if you simply support the right of parents to choose how to educate their children—please attend this important hearing Monday May 5, 2025.
What: Education & Children Committee – Homeschooling Informational Hearing
Where: Legislative Office Building, 300 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, CT
When: Monday, May 5 | 2:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Room: 2E
You will not be able to submit testimony to the informational hearing on Homeschooling. However we encourage EVERYONE to respectfully reach out to each legislator below.
Sample email:
Dear Members of the Education Committee,
I am writing today as a concerned parent and citizen to respectfully urge you not to create or propose new legislation regulating homeschooling in response to the tragic circumstances of the recent Waterbury case.
This deeply upsetting situation is, by all accounts, a case of severe abuse and systemic failure across multiple agencies—not a reflection of the broader homeschooling community in Connecticut. To conflate child abuse with homeschooling is both misleading and dangerous. Thousands of homeschooling families across the state provide loving, safe, and high-quality education for their children. They should not be subjected to undue scrutiny or broad regulatory overreach due to something completely unrelated.
Existing laws already provide mechanisms to intervene in cases of abuse. Strengthening inter-agency coordination and improving mandatory reporting practices would be a far more effective and appropriate response than imposing new burdens on law-abiding homeschool families.
Please preserve the educational freedom that so many Connecticut families rely on. Do not allow a single heartbreaking case to set policy precedent for an entire community.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Sincerely,
[Your Name]
[Your Town]
These representatives and senators make up the Children’s and Education Committee - send an email to everyone below:
[email protected];
[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Also please reach out to your own legislators and express your thoughts about this hearing! Find your representatives here: https://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/menu/cgafindleg.asp