{"id":5518,"date":"2005-09-19T06:17:28","date_gmt":"2005-09-19T06:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=5518"},"modified":"2005-09-19T06:17:28","modified_gmt":"2005-09-19T06:17:28","slug":"an-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=5518","title":{"rendered":"AN ENDORSEMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if Helen is in the Mat-Su voting district, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frontiersman.com\/articles\/2005\/09\/18\/news\/news3.txt\">these challengers<\/a> deserve support:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mat-Su School Board President Mike Chmielewski [Boo!  Hiss!] cited potential for abuse as one reason why he supported increased state regulation over private home schools.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;School board candidates Neal Lacy and Cheryl Turner are both running against Chmielewski for a seat on the Mat-Su School Board. Both Lacy and Turner said they oppose state control over private home schoolers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m fully aware that we have our percentage of people that abuse the home-school program, but we also have inadequacies in the public system,&#8221; Turner said. &#8220;Your true home-school parents are dedicated to their children&#8217;s education.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lacy agreed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If they aren&#8217;t getting state aid, then why should we test them?&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The district acknowledges that they have no legitimate rationale for their call for increased regulation.  It&#8217;s really just one more way to harass home educators.  I hope Chmielewski loses his job over this, but with two candidates potentially splitting the pro-liberty vote, chances don&#8217;t look good.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Helen commented on the other <a href=\"http:\/\/homeedmag.com\/blogs\/heos\/?p=229\">blog<\/a> that she is indeed in the Mat-Su voting district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if Helen is in the Mat-Su voting district, but these challengers deserve support: Mat-Su School Board President Mike Chmielewski [Boo! Hiss!] cited potential for abuse as one reason why he supported increased state regulation over private home schools. &#8230;School board candidates Neal Lacy and Cheryl Turner are both running against Chmielewski for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5518"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}