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Hello? Is anybody there? What you need to know about CHEK

By Anonymous
Did you know ...
that CHEK is run completely by volunteers? Board members, social media, blogging, yahoogroup liaisons, Conference Team, legal counsel and more are all homeschooling parents just like you, giving their time and energy to keep you informed!
 If you're waiting on updates, email responses, or other information from CHEK keep in mind no one is ignoring you... we're doing our very best! Additional job descriptions and volunteers are being added, so be patient with us.
Over the course of the last year, CHEK volunteers have donated well over 2100 hours! 
What CHEK is working on right now:
  • Common Core Standards and their impact on homeschooling
  • Religious Freedom Restoration Act response and sharing of information
  • Ongoing updates to our social media ministry pages: Facebook, Twitter, Googleplus to keep you informed.
from CHEK website: CHEK is dedicated to promoting the Christian worldview in child training and education. CHEK Directors and Officers are volunteers and receive no salary for the many hours they dedicate to the service of the CHEK membership. The CHEK leadership is professionally trained in negotiating, conflict management, legal issues and political action through the National Christian Home Education Leadership Conferences and symposiums hosted throughout the year by the Home School Legal Defense Association and others. CHEK's annual state wide conference, leadership symposiums, home school graduations, legislative monitoring on both the state and national level, the Congressional Action Program, and the dissemination of valuable information makes CHEK membership one of the most valuable commodities to Kentucky home educating families and supporters.
Did you also know ...
 
Christian Home Educators of Kentucky (CHEK) is a statewide homeschooling educational and informational organization established to assist families who choose to educate their children according to the dictates of their conscience and their fundamental rights as parents. CHEK's goal is to better equip homeschoolers with the necessary skills, tools, and information to successfully fulfill their convictions and the God-mandated responsibility to train and educate their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. CHEK represents over 1100 + family members. In addition, we have approximately 3000 families across the Commonwealth of Kentucky on our mailing list. The CHEK Directors are volunteers working diligently to protect the conscientious rights of parents to control the education and upbringing of their children according to Biblical principles and Constitutional liberties.
CHEK exists to:
  • Promote homeschooling in the state of Kentucky.
  • Prepare homeschool parents to teach their children.
  • Preserve homeschool and religious freedoms.
  • Protect parental rights for all families. 

Thank you for supporting CHEK,

The Board and Volunteers of Christian Home Educators of Kentucky,

Scott & Devonne Bolin (President)
Brother Lee & Krissy Watts (Board Members, Legislative Liaison)
Brother Don & Debbie Woolett (Board Members, Advisory Members)

AC Donahue (non-board member, CHEK general legal counsel)
Steve & Cindy West (non-board members, CHEK Conference volunteers) 
 Patrick & Gina Glenn (non-board members, Social Media volunteers)

 

 
 

 
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