Every family deserves a say in how their children learn. This bill restores standards-based homeschooling, returns opt-out rights for relationship education, and opens limited school selection — trusting parents and rewarding quality through choice, not compulsion.
| Law | Previous | Proposed | ||
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| 1 | Homeschooling Regulation |
Homeschooling prohibited; all children must attend licensed schools
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Homeschooling allowed with curriculum standards, testing, and inspections
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| 2 | Personal, Health & Relationships Education |
Comprehensive, mandatory, no opt-out
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Mandatory with parental opt-out
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| 3 | School Selection |
Comprehensive, mixed-ability classes
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Some selective schools
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A former union organizer turned fiery orator, Jakob Knudsen rose through the ranks by rallying disillusioned workers with his unwavering loyalty to the party’s leadership and a gift for electrifying speeches.
Live tally across each chamber. Weighted by seats held.
For: 30 / 35 seats (85.7%)
Against: 5 · Abstained: 0 · Not voted: 0
| Party | Seats | Vote | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Better Fjordheim | 11 | Yes | ABF supports giving families greater choice over their children’s education. This bill expands parental freedom while maintaining proper educational standards and oversight, allowing more flexibility without abandoning quality or accountability |
| ASTER | 0 | No | This bill unwinds, article by article, the three most values-driven parts of ASTER's very first law: it brings back an exemption from the health and relationships curriculum for whichever parent objects, reopens the door to selective schools sorting children by ability before they've had the chance to grow into it, and allows homeschooling to bypass licensed classrooms entirely. We understood, when we wrote that law, that this would be called overreach by some — it was, more than once. We still believe every child deserves the same floor beneath them: the same curriculum, the same classroom, the same chance, regardless of what any one household decides for itself. Choice matters to ASTER too, but a choice that lets a child opt out of understanding their own body, or be sorted away from their peers before adolescence, isn't the kind of freedom we're willing to trade dignity for. ASTER votes No. |
| Democratic Liberal Platform | 5 | No | We do not support this bill. |
| Liberal Platform Proposer | 0 | Yes | No reason given |
| Libertarian Alliance | 19 | Yes | Reduce control of the state in the childrens life. If our citizens want to take care of their own children's schooling they should have that choice |
Every vote must state a public reason. Most recent first.
“We do not support this bill.”
“Reduce control of the state in the childrens life. If our citizens want to take care of their own children's schooling they should have that choice”
“This bill unwinds, article by article, the three most values-driven parts of ASTER's very first law: it brings back an exemption from the health and relationships curriculum for whichever parent objects, reopens the door to selective schools sorting children by ability before they've had the chance to grow into it, and allows homeschooling to bypass licensed classrooms entirely. We understood, when we wrote that law, that this would be called overreach by some — it was, more than once. We still believe every child deserves the same floor beneath them: the same curriculum, the same classroom, the same chance, regardless of what any one household decides for itself. Choice matters to ASTER too, but a choice that lets a child opt out of understanding their own body, or be sorted away from their peers before adolescence, isn't the kind of freedom we're willing to trade dignity for. ASTER votes No.”
“ABF supports giving families greater choice over their children’s education. This bill expands parental freedom while maintaining proper educational standards and oversight, allowing more flexibility without abandoning quality or accountability”