Beaverton’s Village Home Education center is growing

Special to The Oregonian, Thursday May 14, 2009, By Jenn Director Knudsen

Village Home Education Resource Center is a home-away-from-home for nearly 300 families who have selected an educational world without grades or tests. And interest in its approach is growing.

The nonprofit center provides more than 100 classes Tuesdays through Thursdays, plus opportunities for socializing, for home-schooled students. Since opening its Beaverton center in 2003, it has recently added a Northeast Portland site. Preschool through high school students, from across the metro area, attend both locations.

Amid school districts’ projected budget cuts, parents of children in public school are inquiring in greater numbers about Village Home, said Lori Walker, the center’s founder and executive director. “It’s causing them to evaluate the whole approach” to their kids’ education, Walker said. “They’re looking at options.”

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