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MLR & other states:

MLR can work for homeschoolers in many other states. If you are not sure of the recordkeeping requirements in your state, check with your statewide homeschooling organization, or Home School Legal Defense Association (this information is available on their website in condensed form -- www.hslda.com). Even if your state does not require recordkeeping, I believe you might find MLR to be a valuable tool in lesson planning, unless you have a curriculum with built-in lesson planning that you like. Some homeschoolers in states without record keeping requirements (e.g.: Kansas) choose to keep logs as a protection in case their right to homeschool should ever be challenged in the courts.

Databases have been developed in Illinois ("Home School Solutions" -- www.homeschoolsolutions.com), Colorado ("HomeSchool Easy Records" -- http://home.earthlink.net/~vdugar) & New Jersey (Salem Technologies Home School Record Keeper" -- [the link we had for this program is no longer valid--if anyone knows where to find it on the internet, please let us know!], which presumably work well for their states. Other databases of undetermined location include: "Home School ORGANIZE!" (http://members.aol.com/hfsoftware/hspress.html) and "Homeschooler's Companion" (http://www.franwell.com/prod01.htm).

If you should decide that MLR has the features that you want for your homeschool, feel free to e-mail or call us for advice about how to set up your database to best accomodate your state law.

We would like to hear about other states with record keeping requirements that are not being helped by existing databases. We would be interested in adapting ours to meet the needs of out-state homeschoolers, as a way to get a little more mileage out of all the work & time & grey hair that Barry has put into this program, while making homeschoolers' jobs easier.