2020 Golden Horseshoe Winners Announced
The 2020 winners of the Golden Horseshoe Test have been announced. We are aware that at least two winners are homeschoolers. Conner Wilford from Hampshire County and John Summers from Clay County are homeschoolers who have achieved this WV honor. Congratulations!...
Anti-Homeschooling Sentiments Countered
Anti-homeschooling sentiments are nothing new. From the socialization concerns in the 1980’s to this past fall when we reportedly cost Harrison County two million dollars, homeschoolers have often found themselves an easy target. CHEWV was saddened but not...
CHEWV Scores Will Be Released in Plenty of Time
This is an unexpected season when we sacrifice ourselves for the well-being of others. CHEWV testing is no different. With the gracious help of BJU Press Testing & Evaluation, we have extended our testing deadline to late this month in order to get as many...
New Law Expands Homeschooler Access
to Public School Sports & Extracurricular Activities After years of legislative debate and the near passage of similar legislation, Governor Jim Justice signed into law House Bill 4925, making public school extracurricular activities more accessible to West...
AP Updates for Schools Impacted by Coronavirus
The administrators over the Advanced Placement Program have decided to offer an unprecedented provision. For students studying for AP Exams this year, the College Board has created a way to continue that journey to college credit. Follow the link below to a PDF which...
HSLDA Weighs In
The West Virginia Department of Education released a memo citing the impact of the coronavirus to recommend that county boards give homeschoolers a sort of grace period until December 31, 2020 if they submit a standardized test as their annual assessment. This grace...
The State of 2020 Assessments
Do we still have to do them? Yesterday the WV State DOE issued a statement strongly encouraging counties to accept homeschool testing results through December 31. This should be a relief to any homeschool instructors who have 3rd, 5th, 8th or 11th graders and who are...
2020 Assessment Deadline Update
Please Don’t Call the WVDE Some homeschool parents are concerned about getting assessment results in time for the June 30th deadline in light of the COVID-19 guidelines and the cancellation of test centers. Both the WVHEA and CHEWV have been in contact with the state...
New Member Resource: Annual Assessment Tracker
As a free members-only resource, CHEWV will soon be sending our newly-created Annual Assessment Tracker to all our members. While WV homeschooling families no longer need to submit assessment results to their County Board of Education every single year, assessments -...
2020 Legislative Roller Coaster
While CHEWV has made only limited public statements about the happenings during the 2020 Legislative session, it is not due to lack of legislative activity related to homeschooling! On the contrary, this session has been somewhat of a roller coaster. At times,...
Find us!
