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Homeschooling in Minnesota

Eclectic Community of Homeschooling Opportunities in Minnesota, ECHO
Email: echo-mn@earthlink.net
http://www.echo-mn.org/
ECHO is an outreach group designed to help families learn about homeschooling and support those families via quarterly meetings, Yahoo Group communication, and connecting families with homeschooling support groups.

Mankato Area Home Educators
http://www.hickorytech.net/~scdesign/photo.htm
Email: techw@hickorytech.net
The goal of the Mankato Area Home Educators is to provide families with opportunities to share activities, events, and ideas with others who homeschool. This group is for families that have wide varieties of educational philosophies and various motivations for choosing to homeschool.

Minnesota Association of Christian Home Educators, MACHE
Email: info@mache.org
http://www.mache.org
MACHE leadership is comprised of home educating parents who have "been there and done that." We seek to provide help for parents who would like to take control of their children's education in their own homes.

Minnesota Homeschoolers' Alliance
Email: mha@homeschoolers.org
http://www.homeschoolers.org
Minnesota Homeschoolers’ Alliance (MHA) is a statewide organization that provides information and support to homeschooling families.

Northland Communicating Opportunities & Resources for Home Educators, C.O.R.E.
Email: northlandcore@yahoo.com
http://www.northlandcore.org
Here’s where you’ll learn about upcoming events for homeschooling families in Duluth, Minn., and the surrounding area.

Willmar Area Scholars at Home, WASHlines
http://www.washlines.org
We are a community of homeschooling families that live in the Willmar, MN area.

Christian Homeschools of Stillwater
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CHofStillwater
This group serves the "Christian Homeschools of Stillwater" support group. This group features current news, meeting schedules & activities pertaining to this organization as well as providing a network for hs'ers in our area to share curriculum, ideas & encouragement.

Christian Minnesota Homeschooler
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianMNHSchooler
This is a list that is for Christian Homeschoolers. You do not have to be from Minnesota to join. We meet and share about every aspect of homeschooling as well as many other Chrisitan issues. We can chat about our homes, our children, our curriculum, our spouses, our field trips, our beliefs, and everything in between. Some of us are new at homeschooling, some of us are veterans.

CMNHS, Christian Minnesota Homeschoolers
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CMNHS
CMNHS is a group for Christian homeschoolers in Minnesota. Topics may vary widely, but can include any considerate discussion with an emphasis on building up one another in our homeschooling adventure in this wonderful state.

Early Childhood Homeschooling Opportunities, ECHO - SW
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ECHO-SW
ECHO-SW supports families in the southwestern suburbs including Eden Prairie, Chanhassen, Minnetonka, Shakopee and Chaska. We are a sub-group of ECHO-MN. We feel it is important to have a place where homeschooling families can go for support or resources. We are an open group and we accept families with children of all ages. We do offer the opportunity to get together with fellow families through playdates, parties and field trips.

Early Childhood Homeschooling Opportunities, ECHO - West
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ECHO-West
Early Childhood Homeschooling Opportunities. Support group, activities, playdates and field trips. Supporting parents of the western suburbs of Minneapolis.

Eclectic Community of Homeschooling Opportunities in Minnesota, ECHO-MN
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ECHO-MN
ECHO is an inclusive homeschool organization designed for families who wish to learn more about homeschooling as an alternative form of education.

Kinnickinnic Valley Home Educators
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kinnicsgroup
We are a general homeschool support group composed of home educators from Pierce County and St Croix County of Western Wisconsin, and neighboring Dakota County and Washington County of Minnesota. We meet on a regular basis, throughout the year, in centrally located River Falls, Wisconsin.

Mankato Area Home Educators, MAHE
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MAHE2003
The Mankato Area Home Educators group is for families in the Mankato, MN area. The goal of the group is to provide opportunities for sharing activities, events and ideas with others who homeschool or are interested in starting. This group is for families who have wide varieties of educational philosophies and various motivations for choosing to homeschool.

Minnesota Home Schoolers
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mnhomeschool
MNHS is an open forum for the discussion of issues related to home schooling/ unschooling in Minnesota. The topics discussed will range widely, but can include any considered and considerate discussion of any of the following, with an emphasis on building a supportive homeschooling community spirit in MN.

Minnesota Homeschoolers' Alliance Teens
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MHAteenElist
The Minnesota Homeschooling Teens (MHT) is a social organization for teens 12 years and older throughout the state. MHT works in partnership with the Minnesota Homeschoolers' Alliance to serve the needs of MN homeschooling teens. The elist was created to assist MHA MHTeens to communicate among themselves.

Minnesota Liberal Homeschool Group, MNLHS
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mnlhs
This is a homeschool group for liberally-minded parents in Minnesota (and surrounding areas). This is a social group as well as homeschooling group, so there may be topics that are not directly related to homeschooling at times (but socializing is a part of life and life is our "school").

South Metro Homeschoolers
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SouthMetroHomeschoolers
We are an informal low-structure group for families who are homeschooling children or who are interested in homeschooling in the Minneapolis South Metro/South of the River area. Many of our members live in the areas near Eagan, Burnsville, Apple Valley, Shakopee, Savage, and Lakeville. We don't have formal meetings. If you want to connect with other families for friendship or playdates or field trips, that is what we are all about.

Unschooling Minnesota
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/unschoolingmn
This list is a place for Minnesota unschoolers to get together and discuss unschooling ideas.

Minnesota Association of Charter Schools, MACS
351 E. Kellogg Blvd.
St. Paul, MN 55101
Phone (Toll-free): 888-789-3090
Phone: 651-789-3090
Fax: 651-789-3098
Email: info@mncharterschools.org
http://www.mncharterschools.org
The mission of MACS is to enhance the capacity, assure the quality and promote the choice of public charter schools in Minnesota.

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