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Chris Klicka

Chris Klicka

Christopher J. Klicka is Senior Counsel of the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), an 80,000-member nonprofit legal organization dedicated to protecting the rights of parents to home school in the United States, its territories, and Canada. For six years he served as Executive Director of the National Center for Home Education, the lobbying and research branch of HSLDA, drafting federal legislation, lobbying on Capitol Hill, and providing expert testimony before the U.S. Congress. Since 1985, he has successfully represented over 3500 home school families, requiring him to deal with thousands of public school officials, social workers, prosecutors, and police officers. He has argued before four state supreme courts and several state appellate courts and has appeared before a dozen state legislatures and state boards of education to testify on behalf of home schoolers. His book, Home Schooling: The Right Choice, has been heralded as “the standard-bearer of books on home schooling” and has sold more than 45,000 copies. He authored The Right to Home School: A Guide to the Law on Parents’ Rights in Education as well as Home Schooling in the United States: A Legal Analysis, which is revised each year describing in detail the legal atmosphere of home schooling in each state. He has also published articles in the Religion and Public Education journal and in the Ohio Northern Law Review. Chris and his wife, Tracy, home school their seven children (including a set of twins) in Warrenton, Virginia.

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