Nine things for Parents to know about IL Home Schooling Bill
Kane County Speaks • July 15, 2025
A bill that would regulate the families of nonpublic school students has generated historic opposition in the Illinois General Assembly.
House Bill 2827, filed by state Rep. Terra Costa Howard, D-Lombard, would impose extensive regulations on homeschooling and private schools.
It’s been downplayed as simply filling out a form, but the “Homeschool Act” involves much more. Here are nine things you should know about HB 2827:
- The homeschool regulation creates a child registry, including children’s gender.
- Failing to file the form carries jail time.
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By Kane County Speaks
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July 15, 2025
For decades, Americans have watched as federal involvement in education expanded, ballooning into a behemoth bureaucracy that imposes top-down mandates while divorcing parents from their rightful role as the primary educators of their children, while failing to achieve academic success for students.