Brenda Dickinson of Florida - Florida's full-time home education lobbyist since 1993.

She fought the law in 1996 and Tebow won!

Brenda Dickinson didn't rush for a single yard for the Nease football team on its way to a Class 4A state championship, and didn't complete one pass. But when the Panthers pass out accolades for the greatest football season in school history, they ought to send a thank-you card her way.
Without her, Tim Tebow might not have rushed or passed for any yards. In 1996, Dickinson won a two-year battle in the Florida legislature that allowed home-schooled students to participate in extracurricular activities at public high schools, including athletics. Tebow, the Times-Union's 2005 Super 24 Player of the Year, is the last of five Tebow children to be home-schooled and competed at Nease under the Craig Dickinson Act, named for Dickinson's late husband....

"I think we have a right to use a part of the school," said Bob Tebow, Tim's father. "And a high school coach doesn't have to take a home-schooled athlete: He only has to give that kid a chance. He can cut them like anyone else. ... If a 55-year-old taxpayer with no kids wants to check out a book at a public school library, he should be allowed to do that."

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Brenda has been a great source of help and information in our efforts to make this bill a law for Alabama.  We are very grateful for her support and encouragement!

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