OTA and AP® / College Board®

Open Tent Academy is now a Level 1 AP® approved organization with the College Board®. For more specific information on what this can mean for your homeschooler, especially when it comes to exams and courses, please click here.

NCAA® Approved Core Courses

Are you homeschooling a student-athlete? If so, it may interest you to know that many of our core high-school level courses are pre-approved by the NCAA. No more need to worry about scrambling for documentation and filling out worksheets. For more information, please contact Jonathan.

Florida Residents: OTA is now a Step Up / PEP / FES-UA Services Provider!

If you are a Florida resident, Open Tent Academy is very happy to announce that we are now a provider (in partnership with Step Up for Students) of services for recipients of both Personalized Education Plan (PEP) scholarships, and the Family Empowerment Scholarship for Students with Unique Abilities (FES-UA) – formerly known as the Gardiner scholarship. This program allows families of qualified children (including homeschoolers) to be reimbursed for qualified expenses, including live, online instruction.

For more information on this program, please visit our PEP / FES-UA page.

For more information on how to apply for these programs, please contact Step Up For Students directly.

Virginia: K-12 Learning Acceleration Grants

Open Tent Academy is now a service provider for Virginia residents who qualify for the K-12 Learning Acceleration Grant. This allows qualifying families to use grant funding towards instruction “…in core content areas (English reading/writing, mathematics, science and history/social science) and foreign languages required to meet graduation requirements.”

For more information, please visit our Virginia K-12 Learning Acceleration Grants page.

Arizona: Empowerment Scholarship Program

Open Tent Academy is now an eligible online provider for recipients of Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Program.

With the ESA program, the money that would pay for that student’s education in a neighborhood school follows that student to whichever school the parents choose for their child, including education at home.  ESA dollars cover multiple education expenses such as private school tuition, curricula, educational supplies, tutoring and more.

For more information, please visit our Arizona ESA page.

New Hampshire: EFA

Open Tent Academy is now an approved virtual provider of educational services for recipients of the New Hampshire’s Education Freedom Account, which is managed by the NH Children’s Scholarship Fund. The EFA covers educational expenses such as, but not limited to, online tutoring, online learning programs, educational supplies, and other educational expenses.

For more information, please visit our NH EFA page.

North Carolina: NCSEAA ESA+

Open Tent Academy is now an approved tutoring services provider (in partnership with the North Carolina State Education Assistance Authority) of services for recipients of the Education Student Accounts (ESA+).

For more information, please visit our NCSEAA ESA+ page

California: Charter Schools

Open Tent Academy provides vendor services for several different California-based charter school programs. For more information about how we work with the above-listed programs, please visit our Charter School page!