Oregon Homeschooling

How do I begin homeschooling in Oregon? Do I have to submit test scores? How do I connect with other Oregonian homeschoolers? What is the best way to teach math to my teenager? If you are full of questions, you've come to the right place. Inside you'll find all the tools and information you need to successfully home educate in Oregon.

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Eugene Homeschool Co-Op
Eugene Homeschool Co-Op is a cooperative of community-based education. It is an intimate group of homeschooling families sharing in the consistent organization of educational opportunities, study groups and activities. Bi-monthly meeting and newsletter help keep families connected. The purpose of this list is to connect homeschoolers in the Eugene, Oregon area, who want to be actively contributing to a fun, open-minded, community-based homeschooling cooperative. The EHC has no religious affili...
Educator Library Cards - Multnomah County Library
Multnomah County Library offers an Educator Library card. Library items used for educational purposes may be needed for longer than the standard three-week loan period. Educator cards allow users to check out and renew items for six weeks and to have up to 40 unfilled holds at one time. The educator card is separate from the educator's personal library card. Homeschoolers are eligible for educator cards.
Portland Children's Museum Free Family Pass
Did you know you can check out a family pass from the Multnomah County library to visit Portland Children's Museum for free? Each pass admits two adults and all the children in their household one time. To allow a greater number of families to visit the museum, Multnomah County Library loans the passes for three days only. Passes may not be renewed.
Beginning to Homeschool
A step-by-step guide to beginning to homeschool in Oregon. Deciding to homeschool can bring about a freeing, euphoric kind of feeling, which might be followed immediately by the panic of "Oh no, what do I do now?" Here are some tips for getting through the "Oh no!" stage.
Oregon National Historic Trail
As the harbinger of America's westward expansion, the Oregon Trail was the pathway to the Pacific for fur traders, gold seekers, missionaries and others. Beginning in 1841 and continuing for more than 20 years, an estimated 300,000 emigrants followed this route from Independence, Missouri to Oregon City, Oregon on a trip that took five months to complete. The 2,170 mile long trail passes through Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho and Oregon.
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument
Within the heavily eroded volcanic deposits of the scenic John Day River basin is a well-preserved fossil record of plants and animals. This remarkably complete record, spanning more than 40 of the 65 million years of the Cenozoic Era (the "Age of Mammals and Flowering Plants") is world-renowned. Located near Kimberly, Oregon.
Local Testers
The Multnomah Education Service District provides this short list of local private testers for Multnomah County home schooled students.
Approved Tests
A short list of test that meet the testing requirements in Oregon. This list is provided by the Multnomah Education Service District.
Homeschool Fun for Silicon Valley Teens
This support group, inclusive and non-profit, fosters a rich social life amongst homeschool and small school students by organizing sports leagues, dances, games, Karaoke, bowling, pizza or movie nights. Teens take responsibility to pick the events, decide upon the participants, set rules and select volunteers on this site, even to set up and clean up. Parents of teens then supervise and advise to make this group beneficial to all.
Private Career School Directories
These directories cover these areas: Private Career Schools, Schools of Cosmetology, Tattoo/Permanent Color Schools, and Veteran Approved Programs Schools.
Oregon Revised Statutes: Chapter 339 — School Attendance; Admission; Discipline; Safety
339.030 Exemptions from compulsory school attendance; rules. In the following cases, children shall not be required to attend public full-time schools: Children being taught in a private or parochial school in the courses of study usually taught in grades 1 through 12 in the public schools and in attendance for a period equivalent to that required of children attending public schools in the 1994-1995 school year. Children proving to the satisfaction of the district school ...
Eugene-Springfield Homeschool Association
The Eugene-Springfield Homeschool Association is an inclusive homeschool support group in the Eugene-Springfield area of Lane County, Oregon. They offer a cordial and welcoming environment for homeschoolers to gather together for social and educational activities.
Homeschool Freedom Alerts
OCEANetwork diligently monitors legisltive and bureaucratic activity in Salem and also initiates action towards increased homeschool freedom. Here you will find the most recent e-mail alerts OCEANetwork sent out to their e-mail alert list.
Oregon Home School Students by Age Level
Compiled by the Oregon Department of Education.
Oregon Home School Test Scores by Percentiles 1998-1999
Compiled by the Oregon Department of Education.
Upcoming Events
Not Back to School Camp - Oregon
August 11-25, 2021
Camp Myrtlewood, Bridge, Oregon
Not Back to School Camp is a non-denominational, non-religious homeschool camp. The camp offers workshops, spontaneous events, and special evening gatherings, bringing together campers who are excited about life and willing to be themselves and to reach out and connect with the others. 
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