ILHSA

UPDATE: Wednesday 7/16/2025

Good news: As of the end of the spring 2025 legislative session, HB2827 did not pass! While it did pass out of committee, it was never brought to a vote on the floor of the House, never brought to the Senate, and went no where near the Governor's desk.

This is being hailed by some as a victory, but while we may take a break in our campaign against this assault against homeschooling in Illinois, we have been assured by the bill's author she will rewrite it for a 4th time and reintroduce it during next year's legislative session. Our victory, therefore, is not a triumph in a battle; it is success in an initial skirmish.

Illinois Homeschool Association

(Formerly Illinois H.O.U.S.E.)

Illinois Homeschool Association (ILHSA) is a statewide network of people involved in homeschooling. We are nonsectarian (not religious based) and inclusive for all.

Membership in ILHSA offers a certain amount of assurance to homeschoolers regarding legal issues. ILHSA holds a position on the board of the Ad Hoc Committee for Illinois Homeschool Legal and Legislative Matters, a group that very carefully monitors legal and legislative activity that can potentially have an effect on homeschools. Consulting and working together with other organizations on Ad Hoc, ILHSA is able to supply reliable and timely information to its members regarding legal issues.

We provide this web page that answers most questions including common questions such as how to withdraw a child from public school, what the school district needs from homeschooling families and how to deal with officials who ask for more than they're entitled to receive.

Homeschool Freedoms Aren't Free, Feb 16, 2019

As Illinois homeschoolers are all aware we are the beneficiaries of decades of our predecessors carefully monitoring what is happening in our state legislature and several times a year quietly taking action on small but crucial concerns. On occasion, word is sent out throughout the homeschooling community to please take action on a specific issue because we couldn't make it go away quietly, but these have, thankfully, been rare.

The primary way we have been able to monitor such activity in the Illinois legislature is through a wonderful, dedicated lobbyist. Lobbyists need to be paid.

We are urging every Illinois home educator or supporter of home education to please join a local group that is a member one of the statewide groups that has a seat on the Ad Hoc Committee or to join one of these statewide groups as an individual. Your membership dues today will help keep a lobbyist in Springfield tomorrow.

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