Connecticut Democrats’ attempt to gain control of homeschooling reveals a desire to “force homeschoolers into alignment with the same ideological materials and standardized assessments that have already sparked controversy in government schools,” Sheri Few, founder and president of United States Parents Involved in Education, wrote in an op-ed at The Hill last week. “Burdening every homeschooling family with new academic mandates does nothing to stop the rare individuals who intend to harm children,” she wrote. “The state had the information it needed — it simply did not act.”