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Legal & Compliance
The MHSA is a model bill pushing for sweeping homeschool oversight. Here's what it proposes, which 2026 state bills incorporated its provisions, and what families can do now.
Family Systems
Practical strategies for teaching kids 3+ years apart at home. Learn which subjects to combine, how to schedule your day, and how to track hours per student with ease.
Lifestyle
Most families spend $700 to $1,800 per child per year on homeschooling. Learn what to budget, where money leaks, and which state ESA programs offset costs.
Teaching
High School & College
When your homeschooled teen pushes back, the fix depends on the cause. Learn how to diagnose resistance, restore agency, and decide whether to stay the course or pivot.
Planning & Organization
A step-by-step planning sequence for the homeschool year, from reviewing what worked to setting goals, choosing curriculum, building a calendar, and locking in your record-keeping system before you teach a single lesson.
Family Systems
WFH plus homeschool is one integrated day: a concrete time-blocked schedule, the kid-independence build, async logging that fits real meetings, and the rule for protecting both jobs.
Legal & Compliance
California is one of the lowest-regulation states in the country for homeschoolers, once you know which of the four legal pathways to use. The PSA process, what you have to keep, and what you can ignore.
Family Systems
Not 30 days. The practitioner heuristic is about 1 month per year of prior schooling, so a 6th grader needs roughly 6 months. What it actually looks like at each timeline, and when to start curriculum.
Teaching
Living books, narration, short lessons, nature study — what a Charlotte Mason morning actually looks like in 2026, with realistic time blocks and a 30-day starter plan.
Assessments & Testing
Homeschool portfolio reviews vs standardized tests is the choice families face in roughly five states (Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, and parts of Florida) that allow homeschoolers to pick either path for annual assessment.
Assessments & Testing
About a third of states require homeschoolers to test annually. The accepted tests vary: Stanford, ITBS, IOWA, CAT, MAP. Here's the state-by-state map and how each test compares.
Funding and Finance
Federal homeschool tax deductions are essentially zero. State-level deductions exist in a handful of states. Here's the federal vs state picture without the wishful thinking.