1. Telling my homeschool clients that hire teachers to carefully consider worker classification.  Having a signed IC agreement is not enough.

2. Advising some of my homeschool clients to reclassify teachers as employees and start withholding federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare taxes.  Most will starting to do this January 1, 2007. These clients hire several teachers for several hours a week and exert a lot of control over what and how they teach.  One group also does teacher training and evaluations so the workers definitely look like employees.

3. Change the way my small co-op pays teachers.  The IRS letter stated , "if the worker had been an independent contractor, the parents would have directly paid the worker for the services she provided for their children." Starting next semester we will have parents pay the hired teachers directly.  (More on how that goes later.)

4. Trying to get out the word to homeschool leaders about the potential problems of worker misclassification and in general the employment laws regarding hiring paid teachers. 

5. Write an article on hiring paid teachers and post it on my website (soon!)