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Browse full archive →- Weekly DispatchSep 7, 2026
Registration closes, the calendar doesn't ask permission: fitting a co-op day into a week that already has a curriculum swap in it
The first round of fall co-op and outside-class registrations closes across September, which means a family has to commit to a weekly time slot before it knows whether that slot actually fits the routine built in August. This issue covers how to recalculate a weekly rhythm once an outside commitment lands on top of an existing schedule, and what to do specifically when that outside slot and a still-settling mid-year curriculum swap start competing for the same afternoon hours. Plus the policy dispatch, on where the federal tax credit's proposed regulations and North Carolina's scholarship-organization list stand two weeks further into the same wait.
Issue 19 covered the mechanics of a mid-year curriculum swap once a mismatch is confirmed. Issue 20 turns to a different September pressure point that lands on top of it: the first round of fall co-op and outside-class registrations closing across the month, which forces a family to commit to a fix…
Co Op·Scheduling·Homeschool Rhythm·Extracurriculars·Loop Scheduling·Block Scheduling - Weekly DispatchJul 6, 2026
The K-3 homeschool day: how little time the early grades actually take, and how to fit more than one child into a morning
The curriculum question is answered. The question that replaces it is how to put it together into a day, and the honest first fact is that K-3 takes far fewer hours than newcomers fear. The core fits in a morning, the skill subjects fit in the margins, and a family with more than one young child does not run two schools in parallel but combines what it can and staggers what it cannot. Plus the policy dispatch: the first reporting on how Texas families are actually spending the accounts that funded July 1, and where the early purchases are landing.
The K-3 curriculum coverage that ran from issue 03 through the skill subjects of issue 10 is complete, which moves the question from what to teach to how to assemble it into a day. The issue opens on the fact that most reassures and most surprises new families, which is that the early-grades homesc…
Scheduling·Homeschool Day·Loop Scheduling·Multiple Children·Morning Time·Elementary