CHEC membership is available to new members all year-you can join any time! Each membership year normally begins in June (membership is prorated if a family joins after January 1st) and runs through the following May. From late April to early May, we offer a discounted registration for the next June to May year. Currently membership is a one-time-yearly fee of $60.00 and covers the entire family until the May expiration. The spring discount is $10.00 off. Once the CHEC forms and fees have been returned and processed, the family’s membership is current.

• Everyone who joins CHEC serves CHEC in some capacity. Signing up to serve within CHEC is an expected/ required part of the registration.
• New members will also receive a login password. This will allow them to the “members only” areas of the website, the hub of the co-op.
• Potential, new members will be contacted by the Registrar for clarification of responsibilities, discussion of expectations, and to answer any questions. All members are expected to sign a core values page and must be homeschooling at least one child as per the Definition of Homeschooling.*
• Ohio School Notification Form—both are parts of the registration application. Members of CHEC may participate in all activities of CHEC. Sometimes age, cost, and gender restrictions apply.

*Homeschooling Defined: Families who have been excused from compulsory education, as described in the Ohio Administrative Code 3301-34 or 3301-35-08, and have filed said form or forms as required (applicable for children ages 6-18.)

The following students are not recognized as homeschooled by CHEC (not open to membership): Children enrolled in a public school, private school, public school operating through the home, “cyber school”, publicly funded e-school, charter school, virtual academy, or any other publicly-funded community school, are participating in compulsory education as clarified in the Ohio Revised Code (ORC) 3314.041.