And now, from lifesitenews.com, and written by Calvin Freiburger Mon May 11, 2026 - 4:51 pm EDT, comes this: Connecticut Democrats pass bill restricting homeschooling, send to governor - LifeSite
"HARTFORD (LifeSiteNews) — The Connecticut legislature has given final approval to legislation that would impose new regulations on homeschooling families, and the bill awaits a final signature from Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont.
HB 5468 ostensibly concerns ensuring that homeschooled students are receiving “equivalent instruction” to what they would receive in public school. It requires parents to annually complete an “intent to educate” form confirming whether their child will be enrolled in public school, private school, or “parent-managed learning” (i.e., homeschooling).
The bill also requires new record-keeping on the number of homeschooled children and a records check to verify that parents applying to homeschool are not on the state child abuse and neglect registry or under investigation for the same (the final language does not contain an earlier version’s requirement to prove that a homeschool curriculum’s content is equivalent to public school’s).
“The state has a responsibility to protect children,” said Democrat state Senate Pro Tem Martin Looney in support of the measure. “There’s nothing in this bill that parents should think of as something that is harassing or imposing an unreasonable burden on parents who are doing the right thing.”
But Republicans said that the state Department of Children and Families (DCF) is in no shape to handle the additional workload the bill would bring. “That agency is a train wreck,” said Republican state Sen. Eric Berthel. “It’s off the rails. It needs to go through substantial reform and be fixed before they should be allowed to interact with another family and another child.”
More importantly, the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) opposes the legislation on the grounds that DCF’s power to hold up or deny homeschool applications would not be limited to genuinely abusive parents.
“The registry includes not just confirmed abuse, but a wide range of ‘neglect’ findings, some of which are minor, disputed, or entirely unrelated to a parent’s ability to educate their child,” the group says. “The bill also bars homeschooling for any family that shares a household with someone who has an open DCF case—even if the case has not been substantiated.”
“Connecticut’s definition of ‘neglect’ is broad and subjective,” HSLDA adds. “A parent can be placed on the DCF registry if a caseworker has ‘reasonable cause to believe’ a child was neglected—a standard well below even the preponderance of evidence threshold used in civil court.”
While Connecticut Democratic leaders defend HB 5468 as a measure to “protect children,” they notably support virtually unrestricted abortion up to birth and dangerous child “gender transitions.”
Across the country, homeschooling has emerged as a popular alternative to widely politicized public education. The indoctrination of children with left-wing ideology on sexuality, race, and other agenda items has long been a major concern in American schools and libraries, from book shelves to drag events to classroom materials to even “transitioning” troubled children without parental input. Many schools have also displayed hostility to the rights and employment of individual teachers who refuse to go along with such agendas.
Across the nation, controversy has also erupted in recent years over schools and libraries adopting books that expose sexual themes and activity to children, often in graphic detail and with pornographic imagery depicting specific sexual acts.
In response, the Trump administration has issued executive orders to deny federal funds to educational entities that indoctrinate students through Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) programs, among other executive actions to combat so-called “woke ideology” in education, from LGBT indoctrination to girls’ intimate spaces and female-specific sports teams."
End of very revealing and disturbing article...
Pray for the defeat of these modernist monsters -- and for their conversion to the Catholic Faith, and Church, outside of which there is no salvation for any human creature!
Viva Cristo Rey! Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun, and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle..
St. Joseph, pray for us!!
Gene DeLalla
"HARTFORD (LifeSiteNews) — The Connecticut legislature has given final approval to legislation that would impose new regulations on homeschooling families, and the bill awaits a final signature from Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont.
HB 5468 ostensibly concerns ensuring that homeschooled students are receiving “equivalent instruction” to what they would receive in public school. It requires parents to annually complete an “intent to educate” form confirming whether their child will be enrolled in public school, private school, or “parent-managed learning” (i.e., homeschooling).
The bill also requires new record-keeping on the number of homeschooled children and a records check to verify that parents applying to homeschool are not on the state child abuse and neglect registry or under investigation for the same (the final language does not contain an earlier version’s requirement to prove that a homeschool curriculum’s content is equivalent to public school’s).
“The state has a responsibility to protect children,” said Democrat state Senate Pro Tem Martin Looney in support of the measure. “There’s nothing in this bill that parents should think of as something that is harassing or imposing an unreasonable burden on parents who are doing the right thing.”
But Republicans said that the state Department of Children and Families (DCF) is in no shape to handle the additional workload the bill would bring. “That agency is a train wreck,” said Republican state Sen. Eric Berthel. “It’s off the rails. It needs to go through substantial reform and be fixed before they should be allowed to interact with another family and another child.”
More importantly, the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) opposes the legislation on the grounds that DCF’s power to hold up or deny homeschool applications would not be limited to genuinely abusive parents.
“The registry includes not just confirmed abuse, but a wide range of ‘neglect’ findings, some of which are minor, disputed, or entirely unrelated to a parent’s ability to educate their child,” the group says. “The bill also bars homeschooling for any family that shares a household with someone who has an open DCF case—even if the case has not been substantiated.”
“Connecticut’s definition of ‘neglect’ is broad and subjective,” HSLDA adds. “A parent can be placed on the DCF registry if a caseworker has ‘reasonable cause to believe’ a child was neglected—a standard well below even the preponderance of evidence threshold used in civil court.”
While Connecticut Democratic leaders defend HB 5468 as a measure to “protect children,” they notably support virtually unrestricted abortion up to birth and dangerous child “gender transitions.”
Across the country, homeschooling has emerged as a popular alternative to widely politicized public education. The indoctrination of children with left-wing ideology on sexuality, race, and other agenda items has long been a major concern in American schools and libraries, from book shelves to drag events to classroom materials to even “transitioning” troubled children without parental input. Many schools have also displayed hostility to the rights and employment of individual teachers who refuse to go along with such agendas.
Across the nation, controversy has also erupted in recent years over schools and libraries adopting books that expose sexual themes and activity to children, often in graphic detail and with pornographic imagery depicting specific sexual acts.
In response, the Trump administration has issued executive orders to deny federal funds to educational entities that indoctrinate students through Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) programs, among other executive actions to combat so-called “woke ideology” in education, from LGBT indoctrination to girls’ intimate spaces and female-specific sports teams."
End of very revealing and disturbing article...
Pray for the defeat of these modernist monsters -- and for their conversion to the Catholic Faith, and Church, outside of which there is no salvation for any human creature!
Viva Cristo Rey! Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun, and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle..
St. Joseph, pray for us!!
Gene DeLalla
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