Home Schooling Options

1. Home Schooling Charter School 
          - Guide to various Charter Schools all over Bay Area 
             http://www.themuslimahguide.com/guide-to-different-home-school-charters/

     South Bay Options:

- Ocean Grove Charter School (Based in Santa Cruz - funds $2400 a year, $3000 for high school):  

   http://www.ogcs.org

- Connecting Waters Charter school (Based in Modesto - funds $1800 a year, more for High School):  

    http://www.connectingwaters.org 

          - Delta Empire (Based in Tracy - funds $2400 a year, more for high school):
              http://www.deltacharter.net/schools/empire 

With a Charter school you can choose your own curriculum, books, classes and tutors that you want. Charter school have funds available for you. They assign a teacher to your family that will meet with you. Charter school teachers come to your home every month (or park or library wherever you want). They will ask for samples each month. 

2. Online Schools

  

- K12 CAVA San Mateo (free online school, vendor for charter school): http://cava.k12.com 

K12 is online school, you would choose CAVA San Mateo. They give you all the books, art, math, and science supplies, computer, printer, and online portal access. But you have no choice in the curriculum or the books and are not given any funds. K12 teachers will meet with you once a quarter at a library in a central location (could be near, could be far, each time is different). They will ask for samples each month. The child would login and see their schedule for the day and their progress in each subject. The parents also can login and check the progress and test scores of all the children and check the emails from the teacher.  A lot of new homeschoolers choose K12, and also for upper grade children when mom feels the need to outsource, because it is all organized for you and you get everything you need. In CA it is free.      

 - Time4Learning (online school, $20 a month, vendor for charter school): http://www.time4learning.com 

- The Muslim Academy (online school): https://www.themuslimacademy.org

3. Home School Co-ops

- Academic Antics (downtown SJ, vendor for charter school): https://sites.google.com/site/academicantics/

- A-team (SJ, vendor for charter school): http://ateamhomeschool.com

- Quantum Camp (Mountain View, vendor for charter school: http://www.quantumcamp.com

4. Independent

- Independent Homeschooling (file online): http://californiahomeschool.net/howTo/psa.htm

For more information, see these notes from our first Homeschooling Workshop