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Who We Are

Family Learning Center originated as a Lake Washington School District program 12 years ago. It was founded by a small group of parents who schooled their children at home under the Washington State Home Based Instruction RCW. This group of families was instrumental in developing a conversation with the Superintendent of LWSD to see what support the District could provide families who made the choice to home school. At the time there were other Districts in the state beginning to look at what support could be provided by public schools to parents who were home schooling. After many meetings and much discussion FLC was founded. Since then, FLC has grown from operating out of one room at Gordon Hauck School to our current location and has grown from twelve families to over two hundred. There are currently over one hundred Parent Partnership programs across the state. Each of them is unique based on the specific needs of the students and the District providing the program.

Over time the state regulations governing our school have changed. We now operate our school under the Alternative Learning Experience part of the Washington Administrative Codes (WACs’). As a result, our purpose and goals have modified. At the same time we maintain our original vision as a support to parents who home school. An initiative that greatly impacts our school is the Federal No Child Left Behind Act. This act mandates that each State develop standards for all children attending school and in turn develop an assessment tool that measures each child’s progress in meeting these standards. Districts are required to develop a curriculum that teaches these standards to all children and has tools in place to measure students’ progress annually. Districts are made up of schools and schools are where the teaching and learning occur for most children. As a result of these changes, FLC is focusing more on curriculum that teaches the required standards to all of our students.

We currently have over 200 families, 250 plus students, and 30 staff. We receive many calls weekly inquiring about our school and services and have an ongoing wait list of families who want to enroll at FLC. The school is open 8-10 hours a day offering over one hundred classes to students Kindergarten - Twelfth grade. In addition to classes, we provide an ongoing array of services to parents and students outlined more extensively in our handbook.

FLC is growing, changing, and thriving. Our history will continue to evolve. The faces change but the dedication to our families does not.

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