Homeschool Group Definition

HOMESCHOOL RESOURCE CENTER

A Homeschool Resource Center is a privately funded organization which offers services exclusively to the homeschool community.  These services may include book and teaching material loans, equipment rentals, acting as a clearinghouse for private in-home tutorial services, space rentals, and counseling.  Unlike ISG's these organizations may be run by non-homeschooling individuals and/or be focused on distributing products and services to the homeschool community at large.  A Homeschool Resource Center may operate as either a for-profit business or a non-profit corporation. 

A Homeschool Resource Center is supportive of parent-led education and functions as separate "executors" of the parent's educational goals.  Should an organization, through its leadership or programs, prescribe rather than simply support the parent's educational goals, it is functioning more as a school than a resource center.