When this came up, you never saw such an uprising! Oklahoma has a very large homeschooling community and they started taking action. I got back some great emails, mostly very supportive of homeschool rights from the committee that would've heard this.
However, I got THIS in an email (and several of my friends did too) from my state Senator Nancy Riley.
As we struggle to comply with Pres. Bush’s No Child Left Behind policy, the state must know where its children are in regard to academic structure.
Excuse me? Homeschooled children in Oklahoma are not the "state's children."
Nancy Riley was formally a Republican, who switched parties after running for Lt. Gov. She didn't like the way the Republican party treated her, she said. (Source)
I want her out and if I do nothing else the next time she comes up for re-election, I'm working to get her out.
Thank you for fixing the link! Homeschoolers need to be very serious about rewarding their political friends and PUNISHING their political enemies. Glad to see Riley is on your radar.