The HomeSchool Association of California:

  • Honors the diversity of homeschoolers
  • Supports the entire spectrum of homeschooling                    
  • Provides information
  • Monitors and influences legislation
  • Offers opportunities for families to get together
  • Empowers families to make the choices that respect the rights, needs, and aspirations of their children

HSC welcomes anyone with an interest in homeschooling.

 

 

Filing the Private School Affidavit and Withdrawing a Child From Public School

All families using the private school option should have filed their PSAs between October 1 and 15. If you forgot, you should do it as soon as you discover your mistake. If you form a new school, you should file the PSA as soon as you have formed your school and enrolled a student (meaning you don't file before you have withdrawn your child from his or her former school, since you are saying under penalty of perjury that you have students enrolled).

If you need help filing the PSA, you can find information and step by step instructions here.  If you have questions about how to withdraw your child from his or her current school, you should read the information at [put link to http://www.hsc.org/midyear.php]. As always, if you still have questions email us or call (888) HSC-4440.  

 

Be a part of HSC! 

Come join us at our next open board meeting in January in Corona, CA. 



 
 
HSC announcement


Dear HSC Families,

The new year will be here before we know it, and we are looking forward to it with
great anticipation. We have good news to share with you, and we hope you'll be as
excited as we are about what HSC has in store for all of us in the coming year.

The current HomeSchool Association of California Board of Directors, elected at
the annual meeting (the last official board meeting of the year) consists of:
Katheryn Culwell - President, Pam Sorooshian - Secretary, Meghan Anderson-Coates -
Treasurer, Leslie Buchanan, and David Engle.

Our next board meeting will be held in Southern California, in Corona, January 23-24,
2010. All are welcome to attend, and we would love to see you there. Please come
and join us as we make plans for the next year. Email us at hsc-board@hsc.org for
exact location, times, and directions. We'll also post the information on the HSC
website soon after the first of the year. We encourage you to come to board meetings
and get involved. We have a good time, we work hard, and it is truly very gratifying
to feel part of it. We really hope you'll join us.

We have spent the last several months striving to learn from difficulties and
mistakes of the past, and, as a result, we have each made a very strong commitment
to work together with each other and our members with the greatest possible frankness,
respect and compassion. We have also developed and adopted a Code of Ethics (see
below) to guide all of us, Board members, as well as other HSC volunteers, in living
the highest levels of integrity, responsibility, fairness, and openness as we carry out
our HSC work.

Every one of us is feeling very optimistic and excited and glad to be able to serve
this wonderful organization. We work for HSC because we love what it stands for
and what it offers. HSC is more than just another organization, it is a community of
passionate and caring people who have defended and supported and encouraged
each of us in our out-of-the-mainstream choices to keep our children out of school
and live an unconventional life. We thank you, our members and volunteers, for all
you do, and we know that you share with us the joy and satisfaction of being part
of an organization that does so much good - which helps so many families in so
many ways.

In other news, we are very excited to announce that HSC's 20th Anniversary
Conference will be held August 19-22, 2010, in Sacramento. We are sure that you
won't want to miss California's largest inclusive family homeschool conference,
which is really so much MORE than just a conference. Jen Prink, serving her fourth
year as our conference coordinator, will be posting information very soon on early
bird specials, conference speakers, how to volunteer, and more. Again, we encourage
you to get involved and help make this special conference the best ever!

We wish you all a very happy holiday season and a wonderful new year.

HSC Board of Directors:
Katheryn Culwell, President
Pam Sorooshian, Secretary
Meghan Anderson-Coates, Treasurer
Leslie Buchanan,
David Engle

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HomeSchool Association of California

Code of Ethics

Members of the Board of Directors, staff, and volunteers of the HomeSchool
Association of California are committed to the highest standards of ethical
conduct in the performance of their responsibilities for the organization.

By pledging to accept this code as a minimum guideline for ethical conduct,
board members, staff, and volunteers demonstrate their ongoing commitment to
the core values of integrity, honesty, fairness, openness, and
responsibility.

As a member of the HSC team, I will:

1. Listen carefully to my teammates.
2. Show respect for the opinions of my fellow teammates.
3. Attempt to find outcomes and solutions that achieve consensus
whenever possible.
4. Respect and support majority decisions of the Board.
5. Work with as much transparency and openness as possible.
6. Understand and support the HSC Mission Statement.
7. Keep well informed of developments in the homeschooling community.
8. Participate actively and enthusiastically in relevant meetings and
activities.
9. Bring to the attention of the Board any issues that I think may
adversely affect our organization or those we serve.
10. Attempt to interpret the needs of those we serve to the
organization and interpret the actions of the organization to
those we serve.
11. Refer complaints to the proper level in the chain of command.
12. Consider myself a “steward” of this organization and do my best to
ensure that it is well-managed, maintained, financially secure,
growing, and always operating in the best interest of those we serve.
13. Always work to learn how to do my job better.
14. Declare any conflicts of interest between my personal life and my
position in the organization and abstain from voting when appropriate.
15. Report HSC-related actions in a timely and thorough way.

Additionally, if I am a member of the HSC Board of Directors, I:

1. Will not criticize fellow board members in or out of the boardroom.
2. Will not use my membership on the Board for my personal advantage
or that of my friends or relatives.
3. Will not discuss confidential proceedings of the Board outside the
boardroom.
4. Will ensure, to the best of my abilities, that all board members,
staff, and volunteers have the requisite skills and information to
adequately perform their duties.
5. Will work to ensure that HSC is fair and inclusive in its dealings
with board members, staff, volunteers, and members at large.
6. Will provide comprehensive and timely information to the public,
the media, and all other interested parties and will be responsive
to reasonable requests for more information.

 

Our mailing adress:
HSC
P.O.Box 77873
Corona, Ca 92877
or call:
(888)472-4440