This registration form is for Tuesday, December 2, 10:00 a.m.–Noon ET
This program was also presented on September 8 and October 9, 2025.
| MCLE Credit: | 2.0 |
| Live-Interactive Credit: | 2.0 (all dates, all formats) |
Join two Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) attorneys and homeschool graduates, Amy R. Buchmeyer and William A. Estrada, for a comprehensive examination of homeschooling in the United States. Participants will learn how the modern homeschool movement came to be, relevant court decisions, the current legal framework surrounding homeschooling at the local, state, and federal levels, and current research and studies related to homeschooling. Additionally, there will be a special focus on the legal framework for homeschooling in the Commonwealth of Virginia, as well as a discussion of potential legislation and legal challenges expected in the near future.
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10:00 | Homeschooling in the United States: Where It Came from, Where It Is Going, and a 50-State Summary of the Law |
12:00 | Adjourn |
Amy R. Buchmeyer, Attorney, HSLDA / Purcellville
William A. Estrada, Senior Counsel, HSLDA / Purcellville
Amy R. Buchmeyer, Attorney, HSLDA / Purcellville
A Wisconsin native, Amy Buchmeyer was homeschooled K–12 along with her four younger siblings. She developed a passion for politics while involved in Generation Joshua in high school and eventually double majored in politics & government and criminal justice at Bryan College in Dayton, Tennessee.
Upon graduation, Ms. Buchmeyer returned to Wisconsin where she worked as a field director for Americans for Prosperity. She later received her JD from the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she served as president of the Federalist Society and articles editor of the Wisconsin Law Review.
Now, at HSLDA, Ms. Buchmeyer serves as the contact attorney for eight states and one US territory.
Ms. Buchmeyer loves to travel, and, in addition to Wisconsin and Tennessee, has lived in Idaho, Colorado, England, Thailand, and now Virginia. When not at work, you can usually find her buried in a book (she averages more than 200 a year), traveling, or failing to kill her 9 jade plants.
William A. Estrada, Senior Counsel, HSLDA / Purcellville
Will Estrada began his legal career working for HSLDA in January 2004 as a legal assistant to HSLDA Senior Counsel Scott Woodruff. After graduating from Oak Brook College of Law and Government Policy with his Juris Doctor in 2006, he moved on to direct HSLDA’s Federal Relations department and serve as HSLDA’s federal lobbyist.
Mr. Estrada worked as a career federal employee in the Office for Civil Rights at the US Department of Health and Human Services from 2018 to 2021. In November of 2021, he resigned from the federal government and was selected by the Board of ParentalRights.org to serve as the first full-time president of ParentalRights.org and the Parental Rights Foundation.
In June of 2023, Mr. Estrada decided to return to his roots at HSLDA, this time serving as a senior counsel and contact attorney for HSLDA members in the states of California, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Wyoming, as well as Washington DC. He works to make homeschooling possible for thousands of member families and hundreds of thousands of homeschool students by advocating in state legislatures for homeschool freedom, working to ensure that homeschool graduates are treated equally, and that the laws protecting the rights of homeschool families are followed by government officials.
Mr. Estrada is a member of the following state and federal bars: U.S. Supreme Court, First Circuit Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, California, and District of Columbia. In June of 2023, he was selected by Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin to serve a four-year term on the Board of Visitors of Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia.
Mr. Estrada is a homeschool graduate from Pennsylvania. He and his wife, Rachel (a homeschool graduate from Virginia), have two sons, Dominic and Merrick, and live in Northern Virginia.
