The Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) is a United States-based "nonprofit advocacy organization established to defend and advance the constitutional right of parents to direct the education of their children and to protect family freedoms."
HSLDA is organized as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization, located in Purcellville, Virginia, which is also the home of Patrick Henry College, founded by Michael Farris in 2000.
Some remark that the organization is known (and often criticized, from both inside and outside the larger homeschooling movement) for its ties to the Christian Right and its staunch advocacy for various conservative political and religious causes, some of which are unrelated to homeschooling.
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