Political Alerts

Homeschool Freedom Alerts

Help preserve home education freedom for generations to come. Freedom requires constant vigilance. OCEANetwork diligently monitors legisltive and bureaucratic activity in Salem and also initiates action towards increased homeschool freedom.

CLICK HERE to see a few articles that explain our thoughts about total home education freedom.

Below, you will find the most recent e-mail alerts OCEANetwork sent out to our e-mail alert list. CLICK HERE to sign up to receive e-mail alerts directly from OCEANetwork.

CURRENT ALERTS
HB 4016, Mandatory Child Abuse Reporting Required for Volunteers	2/22/12
Action Requested:
Summary: Amendments were passed removing volunteers and independent teachers/tutors from being mandatory reporters

To find contact information for your State Senator and State Representative, go to the Oregon State Legislature's Legislator Locator page.

OCEANetwork is working in the legislature to increase home education freedoms in Oregon. In addition, we are monitoring the legislature for bills that would impact home education freedoms. These are the bills we are currently watching:

OREGON BILLS

2011, Legislative Final Recap - 11/14/11
HB 2183, Creates violation of making a false report of child abuse - 6/14/11
HB 2459, Mandatory reporters - 4/1/11
HB 2858, Relief Nursery Pilot Program - 3/6/11
HB 4016, Mandatory Child Abuse Reporting Required for Volunteers - 2/22/12
S1877 - 12/12/11

FEDERAL ALERTS

CEDAW, Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women - 12/9/10