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Committee advances constitutional amendment to enshrine parents' right to direct children's education
Summary
House Joint Resolution 1, a proposed constitutional amendment to remove language authorizing the legislature to require every child attend public school and to instead enshrine a parental right to educate outside public schools, was forwarded to the House floor after testimony and debate.
Representative Dale Hawkins presented House Joint Resolution 1 to the House State Affairs Committee as a constitutional amendment that would change Article 9, Section 1 of the Idaho Constitution. Hawkins said the resolution strikes language that "the legislature may require that every child shall attend the public school of the state" and replaces it with a provision protecting the right of parents to educate their children outside public schools.
"We are catching up with what the Supreme Court has already done," Representative Dale Hawkins said, and described the change as recognition that "the…
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