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Homeschooling
Why families use Historical Conquest at home — and which state programmes can help pay for it.
Why homeschool families use Historical Conquest
Historical Conquest is a way to make history come alive for your students. Whether you're teaching one child or a whole homeschool co-op, the card game, the textbooks and the digital game turn history lessons into something students take part in.
Instead of lectures and worksheets, students meet real historical figures, build civilisations and work through world events — which is how curiosity, retention and a real interest in history tend to grow.
Why it works for homeschoolers
- Hands-on gameplay encourages deep learning through fun.
- Ideal for multiple ages — play together as a family, or assign independent study.
- Expands beyond memorization — students apply history to real-world strategy and decision-making.
- Supports every learning style — tactile, visual, auditory and kinesthetic.
- Easy to integrate into your curriculum, or use it as a standalone program.
State funding for homeschooling
What each programme is, whether a homeschooling family can use it, and roughly how much it pays. Amounts, windows and rules change every year — confirm with the official programme before you plan around one.
Checked 18 September 2026.
Four kinds of funding
Education savings accounts
The state puts money in an account the parent directs — often called an ESA, an EFA or a scholarship account. It is usually spent through a marketplace such as ClassWallet or Odyssey, or reimbursed against receipts.
Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wyoming
Charter and correspondence allotments
You enrol in a public independent-study charter or a district correspondence programme, and it holds a per-student budget that you order curriculum through.
Scholarships
Awarded by an organisation rather than paid straight from the state — either privately funded, or funded by donors who earn a state tax credit.
Homeschoolers can use these
17 programmes a homeschooling family can use, subject to each one's own eligibility rules and windows.
| State | Programme | Kind | Amount | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | The CHOOSE Act | Education savings account | $2,000 per homeschooled student (max $4,000 per family) | 2026-27 window closed; income limit lifted from 2027-28 |
| Alaska | Correspondence School Allotment Programs | Correspondence allotment | Set by each programme (IDEA lists $2,700) | Enrol before the autumn count period |
| Arizona | Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) | Education savings account | Varies — 90% of the charter-school amount | |
| Arkansas | Education Freedom Accounts (EFA) | Education savings account | $7,208 per student (2026-27) | 2026-27 window closed |
| California | Charter School Homeschool / Independent Study Funds | Charter school funds | Set by each charter | Ask the charter for its per-student budget |
| Florida | Personalized Education Program (PEP) Scholarship — part of the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship (FTC-PEP) | Education savings account | About $7,400–$9,600 a year, by county | 2026-27 window closed |
| Idaho | Idaho Parental Choice Tax Credit (House Bill 93) | Tax credit | Up to $5,000 per student ($7,500 with a disability) | Next window 15 January – 15 March 2027 |
| Iowa | Tuition and Textbook Tax Credit (homeschool route) — the Students First ESA is for accredited private schools only | Tax credit | Tax credit up to $500 per child | |
| Minnesota | K-12 Education Credit and Subtraction | Tax credit | Subtraction $1,625 (K-6) or $2,500 (7-12); income-limited credit | Claimed on your state tax return |
| New Hampshire | Education Freedom Accounts (EFA) | Education savings account | About $4,266 base, plus any extra aid | 2026-27 cap reached — priority applicants and waitlist |
| New York City | Children's Scholarship Fund NYC — Homeschool Scholarship | Private scholarship | Up to $1,000 per child (private scholarship) | Income-limited; K-8; ask CSF whether places remain |
| Ohio | Home School Expenses Credit (and EdChoice, for private school) | Tax credit | Up to $250 per homeschooled student (nonrefundable credit) | Claimed on your state tax return |
| Oklahoma | Parental Choice Tax Credit | Tax credit | Up to $1,000 per homeschooled student (refundable credit) | Claimed on your state tax return |
| Texas | Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) | Education savings account | $2,000 a year for homeschooled students | First window closed; join the 2027-28 interest list |
| Utah | Utah Fits All Scholarship | Education savings account | $4,000 (ages 5-11) or $6,000 (ages 12-18) for home-based students | In litigation; running and funded for 2026-27 |
| West Virginia | Hope Scholarship | Education savings account | About $5,435.62 a year (2026-27) | Universal from 2026-27; amount reduces the later you apply |
| Wyoming | Steamboat Legacy Scholarship (Education Savings Account) | Education savings account | $7,000 per student a year | In litigation; running for 2026-27 |
Only some homeschooled students
These can pay for home education, but only for children who meet a particular condition.
| State | Programme | Amount | Who can use it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | Georgia Promise Scholarship | Up to $6,500 a year | Only for a child leaving a public school in the zone of a lowest-performing school. A child who is already homeschooled does not qualify. |
| Indiana | Indiana Education Scholarship Account (INESA) | Base about $6,000–$8,300; up to about $20,000 with a disability | Only for students with a disability who have an IEP, SP or CSEP, and their siblings, within the Choice income limit. |
| Missouri | MOScholars (Missouri Empowerment Scholarship Accounts Program) | Based on the state adequacy target | A homeschooled child with no public school semester in the past twelve months qualifies only with an IEP, as a new kindergartener or first-grader, or as a sibling of a recipient. |
| North Carolina | Personal Education Student Accounts (ESA+) | $9,000, or up to $17,000 | Only for students with a disability and a North Carolina public school IEP eligibility determination. There is no account for homeschoolers without a disability. |
| Tennessee | Individualized Education Account (IEA), and the Education Freedom Scholarship (EFS) | IEA: set by the state formula | The IEA serves home-educated students with a qualifying disability. The larger Education Freedom Scholarship pays only a registered non-public school. |
Programmes that do not cover homeschooling
We keep a page for each of these because families ask about them, and so the answer is written down plainly.
| State | Programme | Amount | Why not |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas | Tax Credit for Low Income Students Scholarship Program (TCLISS) | Up to $8,000 (school tuition) | Scholarships pay tuition at a qualified private school; homeschooled students cannot use them. |
| Louisiana | LA GATOR Scholarship Program | $5,243 for most students | An LA GATOR student cannot be in a registered home study programme at the same time, so using it means leaving home-study status. |
| Mississippi | Education Scholarship Account (Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act) | Up to $8,421 (2026-27) | Requires acceptance at an eligible private school and excludes home instruction. |
| Montana | Special Needs Equal Opportunity Education Savings Account | Varies by district (reimbursement) | Struck down in December 2025 and on appeal. There is no Montana ESA for 2026-27 unless the Supreme Court or the Legislature changes that. |
| South Carolina | Education Scholarship Trust Fund (ESTF) | $7,634 per student (2026-27) | Families registered as an Option 1, 2 or 3 homeschool are not eligible. The ESTF agreement can be used to educate at home instead of registering, and 2026-27 is full. |
| Wisconsin | Wisconsin Parental Choice Program (with separate Milwaukee and Racine programmes) | Set per pupil, paid to the school | Vouchers go to participating private schools. Wisconsin has no state programme that funds homeschooling. |
How Historical Conquest fits
Historical Conquest is history curriculum: textbooks and activity books, the Monthly Adventure Box with its lesson plans, the card game and the digital game. Programmes that fund homeschooling generally list curriculum and instructional materials as an allowed expense — each state page quotes that programme's own rule.
- Marketplace states. Where a programme spends through a marketplace such as ClassWallet or Odyssey, the state page says so — search it for Historical Conquest.
- Receipts and tax credits. Where the programme reimburses you, or you claim a credit, buy from our shop and keep the itemised receipt.
- Charters and correspondence programmes. Order through the programme's own vendor system; the programme buys the materials.
- Specific rules. Some programmes restrict what counts — Idaho's credit needs a base curriculum covering four subjects, and public funds in Alaska and California cannot buy religious materials — so read your state's page before you order.