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Show Governor to Sign Proclamation . SALT LAKE CITY - The Utah Home Education Association (UHEA) will meet with Governor Olene S. Walker on Wednesday, May 19, at 3 p.m., at the new East State Capitol Complex Building in Salt Lake City to proclaim June 6-12, 2004 "Utah State Home Education Week." From 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on the following evening, May 20, the UHEA Board of Directors will sponsor a "Home Education Open House" at the Magna Rec Center, 3270 S 8400 W. The purpose of the event is to pro- vide home educators and the general public alike with the opportunity to participate in a unique question and answer forum geared toward home education. edu-cation. The open house will also serve as an introduction and kickoff both for Home Education Week and for the upcoming UHEA Convention and Curriculum Fair. Now in its 11th year, Home Education Week offers support to a growing number of Utah parents who choose to educate their children at home. Activities throughout the week will include fieldtrips to Clark Planetarium, the BYU Museum of Art, the Salt Lake City and County Building, Red Butte Gardens and the Children, s Museum of Utah. There will also be a family Lagoon day. In conjunction with these events, a Class of 2004 "Graduation Recognition" will take place on June 10, at 7 p.m. at Southeast Christian Church, 1881 E. Vine Street (6100 Sand Highland Drive), in Salt Lake City. On June 12, UHEA will host Home Education Week's culminating culmi-nating event, the organization's 24th Annual Convention and Curriculum Fair. The convention's conven-tion's theme for 2004 is, "Unified in Education Freedom," and the event will take place at the Salt Palace Convention Center. Offering nearly 60 parent and teen workshops work-shops and featuring more than 100 vendors, the convention will provide home educating families with many valuable resources including curriculum ideas, literature, educational toys and games, art and history supplements and music. When Governor Michael Leavitt formally proclaimed Utah's first Home Education Week in 1993, the home education educa-tion movement in Utah, though well-established, was relatively obscure in the public realm. Since then, however, the movement move-ment has grown to include more than 30,000 students from some 10,000 families. Having Utah's Governor sign the proclamation has become a significant tradition among home educators in Utah, facilitating facili-tating positive communication between home educating families, fami-lies, the public school system and mainstream citizens. For more information about home education in Utah, as well as a calendar of upcoming events, visit www.uhea.org |