Colorado Homeschool Network (COHSNET)

Colorado Homeschool Network

2007-03-05T13:05:00.000-08:00

COLORADO HOMESCHOOL NETWORK (COHSNET) is an information network for the Coloradean homeschooling community. No meetings, no commitments, just disseminated information. To share an activity, or to be added/removed from the mailing list, please contact us at cohsnet@gmail.com.

COHSNET also provides information to the homeschooling community through an email newsletter sent out every two weeks. If you would like to receive our newsletter through email, please subscribe at cohsnet@gmail.com with the subject line SUBSCRIBE.

COHSNET provides a business ad community service for FREE!! If you have a homeschool related service/business and would like to advertise to our homeschooling network, feel free to contact us via email to post on our site.

If you have curriculum that you would like to sell & advertise through our site, feel free to contact us for very affordable rates.

The opinions expressed in this network are those of the people sharing the information. Please use your discretion when choosing an activity or an event. Please do not forward this information or reprint in any form without the permission of each individual contact person or coordinator. Copyright - Colorado Homeschool Network 2007.

WANTED: Im looking for local homeschooling activities, events, classes, conference or programs that you would like to have the rest of the Coloradean homeschooling community to benefit from, to advertise here. Please email me at cohsnet@gmail.com.

Legislative Updates

2007-03-04T12:03:00.000-08:00

SB 016 - Expanding Compulsory Attendance. This bill that lowers the compulsory attendance from 7 to 6 years old for public and private schooled students, passed third reading in the House on Thursday. The exemption for homeschoolers is still in tact with language that would require homeschoolers to submit a notice of intent when their children are 6 years old.

SB 080 - Mandatory HPV Vaccine. This bill, which requires girls to receive an HPV vaccine before 6th grade, died in the Senate Appropriations Committee on Friday. The house bill on the Mandatory HPV Vaccine, HB1301 is laid over in House Health and Human Services Committee and has not been rescheduled yet.

New Daylight Savings Times Changes and Your Computer

2007-02-26T07:42:00.000-08:00

Thanks to a new law, daylight saving time will start three weeks earlier and end one week later this year.

the additional time period includes March 11, 2007, to April 1, 2007, and
October 28, 2007, to November 4, 2007.
These dates are referred to as the extended DST period.

It will begin at 2 a.m. on the Second Sunday in March and last until the first Sunday of November. And while the change is supposed to help save energy, it could wreak havoc on your computer.

Experts say computers purchased before 2005 will most likely have to be manually adjusted.

A common fix is called a patch, which will reprogram systems with the updated start and end dates for daylight savings time. Users of the new Windows Vista are immune, since Vista was finalized after the 2005 law passed. And computers running anything older than the most recent version of Windows XP, known as Service Pack 2, should simply go into the control panel and unclick the setting that tells the computer to automatically change the clock for daylight-saving time.

And while experts say the daylight saving glitch will not be the Y2K frenzy of 1999, it could lead to some headaches if you're not prepared.