Illinois Loop: Politics: Left & Right School Committees ptas and ptos Parent Rights InService Workshops Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman of connecticut said school choice would http://www.illinoisloop.org/politics.html
Extractions: Who supports making schools places for real learning, Democrats or Republicans? The answer: school reform crosses political boundaries. People standing up to the education establishment include liberals, conservatives, Democrats, Republicans, and Libertarians. The ranks of school reformers also include African-Americans, Hispanics, whites, women, men, Protestants, Catholics, Jews, rich people and poor people. On this page: General Education Issues Liberal Conservative For those confused by such labels as "traditional", "progressive" and whether education reform has a liberal or a conservative agenda, this is MUST reading: "Why Traditional Education IS Progressive" by E. D. Hirsch, Jr., The American Enterprise, March/April 1997, and reprinted in his book, The Schools We Need, and Why We Don't Have Them . Prof. Hirsch starts out by saying, "I would label myself a political liberal and an educational conservative, or perhaps more accurately, an educational pragmatist.
Print : Summaries Of Important Research the League of Women Voters, ptas, and bowling emeritus at the University of connecticut, disagrees. controlled parentteacher organizations (ptos), which don http://www.taemag.com/printVersion/print_article.asp?articleID=17072
Extractions: Everybody wins when parents volunteer ! Kevin Walker, the founder of Project Appleseed, a nonprofit organization, is helping schools involve parents. The organization has created a list of 37 different ways parents can help and is on its way to recruiting 5 million parent volunteers nationwide. INCLUDED: The Project Appleseed Parental Involvement Pledge. Parent- and Community-Involvement Strategies That Work The research is clear: When parents and communities are involved in schools, education improves. From New York to California, from an individual student's notebook to community-outreach programs, here are five approaches to parental and community involvement that work! Included: Five successful programs for parent and community involvement plus links to dozens of online resources! Young Authors and Artists Collaborate on Humanitarian Project Parents at a Washington state elementary school organized a Share a Story student enrichment project that promoted the literacy and humanitarian goals of the school. The students shipped more than 1,000 books to schools in the South Pacific. Among the books were 115 the students had written themselves! What they got in return was a lot of satisfaction - and a big surprise!
Extractions: AED addresses human development needs through education, communication and information in this country and throughout the world. AED's School and Community Services Department develops partnerships between schools, families and communities through research and technical assistance in designing, implementing, and evaluating programs that foster such partnerships.
Extractions: The 21st Century Schools Project at the Progressive Policy Institute works to develop education policy and foster innovation to ensure that America's public schools are an engine of equal opportunity in the knowledge economy. Through research, publications and articles, conferences, a regular electronic newsletter and daily weblog, as well as work with policymakers and practitioners, the project supports initiatives to strengthen accountability, increase equity, improve teacher quality, and expand choice and innovation within public education. AARP The Grandparent Information Center provides information and resources to help grandparents who are raising their grandchildren cope with their primary caregiver roles. The Center works with service agencies across the country in the child care, aging, legal services, and family service fields to address this phenomenon. It serves as a clearinghouse where grandparents, service providers and planners can obtain information and referral to available national and local resources.
From Owner-puptcrit@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU Wed Apr 1 0153 In 1977 he was a guest artist for The University = of connecticut s Puppet Arts Program, Now, I m trying to contact the ptas and ptos to book shows. http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/spoon-archives/puptcrit.archive/puptcrit_1998/puptcrit.9
Extractions: From owner-puptcrit@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU Wed Apr 1 01:53:28 1998 Subject: Re: giant puppetry and festival art Date: Wed, 1 Apr 98 10:57:24 -0000 From: Dan Vie - List replies to: puptcrit@lists.village.virginia.edu - Admin commands to: majordomo@lists.village.virginia.edu From owner-puptcrit@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU Wed Apr 1 16:00:07 1998 Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:30:13 -0500 (EST) From: Sara Peattie - List replies to: puptcrit@lists.village.virginia.edu - Admin commands to: majordomo@lists.village.virginia.edu From owner-puptcrit@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU Wed Apr 1 16:07:42 1998 From: AaronShep > - List replies to: puptcrit@lists.village.virginia.edu > - Admin commands to: majordomo@lists.village.virginia.edu > > David Adams in Maryland - Personal replies to: patriot@mip.net - List replies to: puptcrit@lists.village.virginia.edu - Admin commands to: majordomo@lists.village.virginia.edu From owner-puptcrit@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU Thu Apr 2 01:52:27 1998 From: ITCalimari - List replies to: puptcrit@lists.village.virginia.edu - Admin commands to: majordomo@lists.village.virginia.edu From owner-puptcrit@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU Thu Apr 2 07:05:55 1998 From: "Asla"
Fund Knotwork Tying Together Everything Relating To The Concept We have helped connecticut NonProfit Selecting a fundraising company PTOtoday is dedicated to helping school parent groups (like ptos and ptas) help their http://aggrandisement.info/index/fund/fundraising-company.htm
Click Find In Minutes , Then Press ALT S To Repeatedly Search both students with a Certificate of Excellence for the connecticut Association of While they wholeheartedly agree that the ptos and ptas have always http://information.southington.org/Meetings/Minutes.nsf/all/c4682d07641088ba8525
Extractions: Present from the administration were: Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Harvey Polansky; and Assistant Superintendent of Schools, Mr. Jerome Belair. Also present were Business Manager, Mrs. Sherri-Lin DiNello; Senior Coordinator, Ms. Frances Haag; Operations Administrator, Mr. Frederick G. Cox and Student Representative, Mr. Mark Florian. Mr. Derynoski presented both students with a Certificate of Excellence for the Connecticut Association of Public Schools having duly qualified under the standards prescribed by the Southington Public Schools and endorsed by the Superintendent and the Southington Board of Education. Mr. Derynoski thanked the parents for doing an outstanding job, stating they had a lot to be proud of and noted that Board members and the administration were equally as proud.
THIS TRANSCRIPT CONTAINS 318 PAGES NUMBERED 59 THROUGH 376 DRAFT 15 1062 Meriden Road 16 Waterbury, connecticut 17 067053137 18 19 For the Office of Schools 16 and probably also the chairman of the ptos 17 and ptas. http://www.dpuc.state.ct.us/DPUCTran.nsf/0/32a66148c8a492888525684300691fd6/$FIL
The Lightspan Network - Sw StudyWeb StateSpecific ptas/ptos. http//www.norwalk.k12.ct.us/cranbury/ptonews. htm Source Cranbury Elementary School Visual Content Approx. http://www.lightspan.com/common/studyweb/sw.asp?target=http://www.studyweb.com/l
The Lightspan Network - Sw StudyWeb StateSpecific ptas/ptos. CT Douglas School PTO The website of the CT Douglas School PTO News lists fund-raising information and the board members. http://www.lightspan.com/common/studyweb/sw.asp?target=http://www.studyweb.com/l
Education Teachers Directory Of Florida and incentived, fundraising supplies plus much more. Everything from A to Z. For teachers, principals, ptas, ptos, and parents. http://florida.uscity.net/Education/Teachers/
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The PTA Goes Kaput Given the way ptas are governed, it is virtually impossible for parents to dissent The PTA criticizes ptos On the grounds that they don t fund national http://www.educationpolicy.org/files/PTAkaput.htm
Extractions: by Charlene K. Haar, EPI President This year, the National Congress of Parents and Teachers, commonly known as the PTA, is celebrating its centennial. But the national PTA has little to cheer about. Fewer than a quarter of America's public schools have active PTA chapters, and officially, PTA membership has fallen from a peak of 12 million in 1966 to 6.5 million today. PTA leaders offer many reasons why their rolls are declining. But they have done little to address the PTA's gravest problemits subservience to the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). Throughout its history, the PTA has supported higher salaries and better working conditions for teachers. But in 1968, the teacher members of the PTA threatened to withdraw membership and boycott the PTA if the PTAs supported school boards in teacher strikes. Thereupon, the PTA rolled over and adopted a position of "neutrality" on teacher strikes as well as the issues negotiated in union contracts, such as class size, the annual number of parent-teacher conferences, and how parental grievances are resolved. "Neutrality" on these important issues is a big setback for parents: When school boards sacrifice parent interests to teacher interests, as often happens, the PTA does not object. As millions of parents dropped out of the PTA, those who remained tended to be pro-union or unaware of the PTA's pro-union positions. And so the PTA has gradually evolved into a front for the teachers' unions. Consider these recent issues:
Beyond Bake Sales In Florida, about 26 percent of the schools have ptas. These ptos strongly encourage parents to become active participants in educational http://www.educationpolicy.org/files/bakesales.htm
Extractions: by Charlene K. Haar, EPI President Hardly a week goes by without another article encouraging parental involvement in education accompanied by a poll showing the benefits of having parents active in their child's education. Busy parents have long been engaged in volunteer work within classrooms, extra-curricular activities, on school playgrounds, and at home. Today, however, parents who are contributing more time and money feel like they are resources to be tapped rather than major stakeholders in the system. Parents are turning to traditional parent-teacher groups for help. The question is: What kind of help can they expect? The century old National Congress of Parents and Teachers (PTA), has been a long-time proponent of parental involvement. The PTA has local affiliates in slightly over one-fifth of the K-12 schools in the United States. In Florida, about 26 percent of the schools have PTAs. However, all is not well with the PTA. At the PTA's national convention in Kansas City, Missouri, last June, most states reported no membership increases, while many states reported membership losses. Some states, like Indiana, have seen significant dropout rates. In 1994, the Indiana PTA lost 3,384 members and at least 9,000 members quit in 1996. In my opinion, there are several reasons for this decline.
The Role Of The PTA - Alabama - GreatSchools.net clubs. These clubs serve many of the same functions as ptas, but operate as these groups are sometimes referred to as parentteacher organizations, or ptos. http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/showarticle/al/29/parent
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Extractions: The groups selling our programs include PTAs/PTOs, scout troops, churches, school bands and orchestras, choirs, sports organizations, dance groups, cheerleaders the list goes on and on. From time to time, we like to share success stories from a few of these groups. We raised money for large schools that raised as much as $5,000 to small schools which raise much less. We'd love the opportunity to help your organization and try to add you to our list of satisfied customers. (References are available upon request.) Long Hill United Methodist Children's Center - Trumbull, CT Thank you for all you help with the fundraiser. The suggestions for letters and ideas for marketing were much appreciated. Our results were great. Parents responded favorably and we found it to be very rewarding both financially and in terms of providing our families with a nice variety of nice music. The recording of the Nutcracker is top notch. I am enjoying mine and my niece and nephew are enjoying theirs as well. We hope to work with you again next year. (This preschool sold over $2,800 in music and raised over $1,100 to support their programs) Barbara Clark, Director
Purchasing Services Enables The Loudoun County Public Schools The procedures outlined herein do not apply to ptas, ptos, Booster Clubs or any other school associations or organizations when such an organization makes a http://www.co.loudoun.va.us/lcps/purchasing/procedures.htm
Extractions: e-mail: lcpspurchase@loudoun.k12.va.us PURCHASING POLICIES AND PROCEDURES Introduction Conflict of Interest Gift Policy Rider Clause ... Vendor Cards INTRODUCTION Generally, equipment and supplies are bid through Purchasing Services. Construction and construction related projects are bid through the Construction Office. The Construction Office is located at the Douglass Support Facility, 55 Plaza Street, S. W., Leesburg, Virginia 20175. Contact the Director of Construction for more information at 703-771-6461. Purchasing Services relies on the Account Managers to submit accurate and complete information for the bidding process. The following information is necessary in order for Purchasing to produce a competitive sealed bid: detailed specifications and/or catalog cuts quantity needed delivery or completion date verification of the availability of funds suggested vendor(s) approximate total purchase cost GO TO TOP PROCEDURES The procedures outlined herein do not apply to PTAs, PTOs, Booster Clubs or any other school associations or organizations when such an organization makes a purchase directly. However, quotations from more than one qualified vendor are encouraged whenever possible, regardless of the dollar amount involved or the organization making the purchase.
New Jersey School Boards Association Groups such as ptas, ptos, Home and School Associations, citizen groups formed to support the passage of the referendum, and even the local teachers http://www.njsba.org/members_only/publications/school_leader/marap2.html
Extractions: Synopsis of Services Publications Resources Selected Articles from School Leader As the millennium approaches, New Jersey's public schools find themselves in the throes of a facilities crisis. Growth in student enrollment, expanding technological needs and aging facilities are problems faced by school districts across the state. These problems are not unique to any geographical region or class of school system; they affect special needs, urban, suburban and rural communities alike. Calendar year 1998 saw school boards in New Jersey bring 75 bond referenda before the public for a total of $893.919 million in proposed spending, 45 of which were approved. These numbers are expected to increase in 1999 as school facility needs continue to grow. As more bond referenda are brought before the public, boards of education continue to wrestle with the issue of how to best support their passage. The techniques used by local boards to spark interest and increase voter turnout are as widespread as they are innovative. However, the board's authority to communicate with the voters is not without legal limitations. The purpose of this article is to set forth the legal constraints under which boards of education must operate in addressing their facility needs through passage of a bond referendum. Expenditure of Public Funds The primary constraint on boards of education is in their ability to expend public funds in support of a bond referendum. The leading case on this issue, Citizens to
