Capitol Day
2026

Let’s Make An Impact Together

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Goal:

The goal of Capitol Day is to provide information about private home education to our California state legislators and their staff in a friendly, professional manner. This also allows legislators and their staff the opportunity to visit with real homeschool families.
Our Capitol Day volunteers will visit each of the 120 legislators’ Capitol offices, providing each office with an information packet about private homeschooling. These packets help explain private home education as well as provide research showing that privately home-educated children do very well compared with students from the public schools. 

Capitol Day Serves Several Puposes:

Informs

It informs any newly elected legislators and their staff and reminds the veteran legislators of the benefits of private homeschooling.

Strengthens

It strengthens our working relationship with them on a professional level.

Point of Contact

It leaves them with a way to contact us if they ever have any questions about home education.

Educates

It educates private homeschool families on the inner workings of the legislative process, trains them in how to advocate for homeschooling freedoms, and gives them a hands-on learning experience in government as they visit legislators’ offices at the capitol.

Thanks to our sponsors

We extend our heartfelt gratitude to our generous sponsors for making Capitol Day possible.

How It Works

1

Application

What are you waiting for? Capitol Day is our biggest event of the year! You and your family will learn a lot! Submit your application for review.

2

Approved

If your application is approved, you will receive an email with a link to our registration page.

3

Registration

Complete registration by January 7th during this step. Lunch will be provided.

Meet Our Speakers

Kevin Boden, Esq.

Director, Legal and Legislative Advocacy, HSLDA

Kevin and his wife, Wendi, became homeschooling parents in 2008, when their oldest child was in first grade. Now, many years later, they continue to educate all their children at home.

Kevin is a graduate of Wheaton College (IL) and received his J.D. from Seattle University. Prior to joining HSLDA, Kevin served on active duty in the US Air Force for 10 years as a Judge Advocate, allowing he and Wendi to homeschool in three different countries and five states. Kevin has served three years in the Alaska Air National Guard and continues his service as a drill-status Guardsman.

As Staff Attorney, Kevin serves as the primary contact for members in nine states and one territory. He is passionate about the freedom to homeschool and the blessings of being a dad. He also enjoys running, (almost) all things outdoors, and spending time with his family.

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Nathan Pierce

Executive Director, Family Protection Ministries

Starting in 2002, Nathan Pierce began working at Family Protection Ministries and currently serves as the Executive Director. He has over 20 years of experience doing advocacy work at the State Capitol.

He works behind the scenes at the State Capitol, meeting with legislators and staff as well as testifying in committees to advocate on behalf of homeschoolers. Nathan values the importance of evaluating all things from an intentionally biblical worldview and works every day to maintain our freedom to do so.

Nathan was homeschooled through high school and received a B.A. in Political Studies from The Master’s College. Nathan and his wife Betsy were married in 2004 and homeschool their 8 children. In 2018, Nathan received the Chris Klicka award for legislative work from HSLDA.

Lynda Sloneker

Executive Director, STOA

Lynda has been part of STOA since 2014, with three of the six Sloneker children participating in and growing up in STOA. She was one of the founding members of Surgamus Speech and Debate Club in Northwest Arkansas, and has served there as club director and tournament director since the beginning. Lynda has worked in almost every tournament role, including Tab Director, Ballot Push Lead, Judge Orientation, and Ballot Return. In addition, she served as Tournament Director for the 2022 National Invitational Tournament of Champions (NITOC) in Dallas, Texas. On the national level, Lynda served on the Training & Development Committee for two years, the Tools & Tabulation Committee for three years, and has been on the STOA Board of Directors for three years.

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family photo with a legislator in his office
a young boy shaking hands with a legislator in his office at the California State Capitol
a young boy shaking hands with a legislator in his office at the California State Capitol

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