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By Kate Prokop
I’ve spent the last several days looking deeply into the backgrounds of the people pushing the hardest for new homeschooling regulations in Connecticut. I wanted to know who exactly was behind this push and whether they were credible voices on this issue or just opportunists looking for a headline.
What I found was exactly what I expected: people with questionable track records who should absolutely not be the ones crafting laws that affect our families, our children, and our fundamental rights as parents.
Let’s start with State Representative Jennifer Leeper. She talks a lot about transparency and responsibility, but back in 2020 during her campaign, she failed to disclose her ownership in a political consulting firm that works directly with Democratic campaigns. She was a founding partner of 475 Consulting Group and only claimed she was on “sabbatical” from it during the race. Critics rightly called out the double standard—how can you build your platform on clean politics while hiding your direct financial ties to one of the dirtiest parts of it? Fast forward a few years, and she’s under investigation by the State Elections Enforcement Commission because the Town of Fairfield used its official Instagram account to promote her public appearances—posts that looked a lot like campaign materials. She claims they were nonpartisan, but anyone with a brain knows better.
Then there’s State Representative Corey Paris. This guy is leading the charge to regulate homeschoolers across Connecticut, and yet his own political history includes allegations of voter fraud. When he ran for office, a formal complaint was filed claiming he voted in Stamford while actually living in Bridgeport—violating basic residency laws. His defense? He was “planning to move back.” Planning. That’s the level of integrity we’re dealing with here. And while he talks like a social justice crusader, everything about his record screams political opportunist. He’s already eyeing higher office, and this homeschooling attack looks more like a career move than a genuine concern for children’s safety.
It’s insulting to watch people with this kind of baggage attempt to dictate how thousands of families educate their children. These are not seasoned educators or experts in child development. They are career politicians with a pattern of cutting corners, concealing conflicts, and leveraging fear to push through sweeping regulations that hurt everyday families.
We saw this exact playbook used during the removal of the religious exemption: multiple bills introduced in case one failed, a 24-hour cap on public testimony, and now with homeschooling, not even a real public hearing, just an “informational session” that silences every single parent who wants to speak out.
This is not about safety. This is about control. It’s about using rare and tragic cases as political ammunition to impose broad, one-size-fits-all oversight over families who have done absolutely nothing wrong. I am sick and tired of the performative concern from legislators who violate ethics codes in one breath and claim to care about our children in the next. These people have no business legislating how we raise and educate our kids.
