This Week’s Money Carnivals Curtis Ophoven 9/13/2008 - 1 Comments This week I participated in one blog carnivals. Carnival of homeschoolers #141 – The Hero Edition hosted by Why Homeschool. They did an excellent job and, as usual, there are tons of great posts. If you have the time, I highly suggest you skim through them. Carnival of Homeschoolers Our article, "McCain to Hold Education Accountable" was listed. Here are a few other articles that I found interesting.  One mother writes about Counting the Cost—Homeschooling Barbara Frank writes Don’t Let Inflation Keep You from Homeschooling. She has some great ideas for pinching pennies. Mary Nix, The Informed Parent, challenges us as homeschoolers to be better informed in Who should homeschoolers vote for? Subscribe via RSS Copyright © 2008 SaveMoneyHomeschooling.com. All rights reserved. Reader Comments Be the first to leave a comment! Write a Comment Please keep comments civil and on-topic. Abusive or inappropriate comments will be removed without warning.  Name (required)     Email Address (required)     Website URL  Comment

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