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How You Can Participate on the Homeschool Freedom Team from Home

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Homeschooling has been free in Colorado for more than 30 years, thanks to faithful partnerships and God’s kind blessing. The battle for homeschool freedom in Colorado began in the 1980s, and God worked through the very first small homeschool conference, held in 1990, to grow a movement that continues to this day. Now, CHEC continues to reach more families with our vision of home discipleship that is Christ centered, parent directed, and free from government control.

The Colorado Legislature closed its session this past May with a whopping 657 bills introduced, including numerous attacks on parental rights and religious liberty, which threaten your freedom to homeschool. To review the hard-fought battles that took place during this session, read this overview post and download the CHEC 2025 Homeschool Freedom End-of-Session Report.

CHEC’s Homeschool Freedom Team, led by Colleen Enos, Director of Government Relations, is committed to faithfully standing watch — and taking action — to protect your homeschool freedom, parental rights, and religious liberty for now and for future generations. If you’re a homeschooling parent in Colorado, we need you to stand with us in this effort. 

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Five Ways to Find Homeschool Groups

Five Ways to Find and Connect with Homeschool Groups near You

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by Renée Gotcher

When my mother started homeschooling us in 1988, we had joined an umbrella school affiliated with an existing Christian school, which offered some in-person activities for enrolled homeschooling families to participate in. However, most of these activities were at the school’s location, which was more than an hour’s drive from our home. If there was a “homeschool group” outside of the families we met at those activities, we didn’t know about it. Thankfully, my mom soon discovered a homeschool “park day” taking place much closer to us, so she added it to our monthly schedule. 

Today, a quick Google search for “homeschool groups” will attest to the fact that there are a growing number of organizations that fit the description. From homeschool support groups and co-ops to hybrid or enrichment programs and even online communities, the options are plentiful enough that you should never feel alone in your homeschooling journey! 

However, finding a homeschool group that works for your family isn’t as easy as a quick Google search (more on that later). In this article, you’ll learn five ways to make your search for homeschool groups that are aligned with your homeschool mission more focused and fruitful.

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Unique Learners

Defining and Overcoming Dyscalculia, Dysgraphia, and Dyslexia

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By Shari McMinn

Like me, you probably started homeschooling your children and then realized it was way more than you bargained for! Especially when you discovered your child had issues beyond the typical struggles of laziness or wild behavior during reading, writing, and ’rithmetic.

We might have heard of dyslexia, but how many of us even knew about the learning labels of dyscalculia and dysgraphia, or how to help our children cope with them?

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places (Ephesians 6:12 ESV).

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Colorado Legislative Update

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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by Colleen Enos (CHEC Director of Government Relations)

The CHEC 2025 Homeschool Freedom End-of-Session Report is now published and linked in this blog post. It is a sampling of twenty-eight bills from the legislative session — a total of 657 bills were introduced in the Colorado House of Representatives and the Colorado Senate, with an additional 75 House and Senate Resolutions. This was a large volume of legislation for the 120-day annual session.

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Independent School Umbrella

Why Use an Independent School (Umbrella) if It’s Not Required?

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by Renée Gotcher

When my mother decided to start homeschooling in 1988, I was just two years away from finishing high school. We had moved too far from my public high school for me to continue attending, so she included me in this sweeping decision, despite my initial resistance. From my questioning teenage perspective, the fact that she enrolled us in an independent school, which organized some activities to connect with other homeschooling families, was my saving grace. (Although most of these events were not local to us — homeschooling was unusual back then!)

Much has changed in our culture and public education system since those early days of modern homeschooling, especially in the post-COVID-19 pandemic years. Not surprisingly, the number of families homeschooling across the country has skyrocketed1, along with the number of options emerging to support these families.

However, one thing hasn’t changed, in my opinion: The value of enrolling in an independent school (also known as an umbrella school) for legal compliance with state homeschooling law.

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