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Committee forwards joint resolution to enshrine parental right to direct children's education to the floor
Summary
House Joint Resolution 1, a constitutional amendment proposal to recognize a parental right to direct the education of children outside public schools, was sent to the full House with a due-pass recommendation after testimony for and against and multiple public witnesses.
The House State Affairs Committee voted to send House Joint Resolution 1, a proposed constitutional amendment that would insert a parental-rights provision relating to education into the Idaho Constitution, to the full House with a due-pass recommendation.
Representative Dale Hawkins (R-District 2) presented HJR1 and said the resolution "strikes concurrent language from Article 9, Section 9" and replaces it with language asserting that "the right of the people to educate their children without government regulation outside of the public school of the state shall not be infringed." Hawkins told the committee the change is intended to align Idaho's constitution with recent court decisions and to "recogniz[e] the natural right"…
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