Alaska PTA Frequently Asked Questions over 27000 local units in 50 states, district of columbia, There is noaffiliation with other ptos, and there are no state or national resources. http://www.alaska.net/~akpta/ptafaq.html
Extractions: The National PTA consists of nearly 6million members, over 27,000 local units in 50 states, District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, Pacific Congress and European Congress (serving Department of Defense schools overseas). Members include parents, teachers, school administrators, students and other child advocates. Cautionsome of this information is very specific to the State of Alaska and to Alaska PTA Can the president vote?
FCCPTA Website - Why PTA Talking Points Other parent teacher organizations (often called ptos) are independent groupsthat are also as well as the district of columbia, US Virgin Islands, http://www.fccpta.org/homepage_files/pta_basics/why_pta_talking_points.htm
Extractions: No. When you are a member of a PTA, your PTA is chartered by the state in which you reside and is part of a national network working on behalf of all children. Other parent teacher organizations (often called PTOs) are independent groups that are also school-based, but they do not pay dues to a state or national entity. PTOs are often run under the guidance of school personnel (rather than parents), and are often focused on fundraising activities for the school, rather than on education, health or safety issues affecting children. One of the biggest differences is how PTA dues and PTO dues work. As a member of a PTA, your dues go to not only supporting the work at your local level, but a small portion of dues goes to your state (state portions vary from just 50 cents to as much as $4.50). In addition, just $1.75 of each members dues goes to the National PTA to support nationwide efforts and programs that benefit more than 26,000 PTAs across the country. Your dues help National PTA conduct important research on education, health and safety issues, develop resources for parents and educators, and offer professional development training for PTA members and leaders. The money collected in dues or raised by PTOs often stays in the school, and no portion goes to supporting state or national programs, research, or resources. PTOs tend to be incorporated for the benefit of only their school, rather than working on important issues that need to be addressed at the state or national level, such as mandatory state testing for public school children and federal funding of education.
MSUE Portal parents who are members of ptas, ptos, or other To The TEAM BUILDER 2000, $3500 DistrictGrant Winners Priest, Food Service Director, columbia Schools, Jackson http://www.msue.msu.edu/fnh/tn/tnfall99.htm
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The Herald - Local A survey the school district took of ptas and ptos in February 2003 indicatedtwo parent groups had contributed $50,000 to $75,000 that year. http://www.heraldonline.com/local/story/4146897p-3911744c.html
Extractions: Place An Ad Got stuff to sell? Place it in The Herald Classifieds. Subscription Hungry for more than just news. Subscribe today! Early Classifieds Free Archives Coupons Early Ticket ... Member Center Quick Search: Current Archive HOME NEWS SPORTS OPINIONS ... LOCAL Updated: 09/20/05 Groups give district $1M boost Parents have become so good at selling sodas, raffling motorcycles and cleaning stadiums that PTAs, PTOs and boosters clubs combined are providing about $1 million a year for Rock Hill's public schools. With cutbacks in state funding, schools have become increasingly dependent on money parents raise for the enrichment tax money can't afford. It also has fostered administrative problems: Fund raising has spiraled so much that district officials are not always certain where and how the money is being spent. Nor, sometimes, are some parents who devote countless hours to fund raising. Parent groups keep their own books on the thousands of dollars they raise, but from there the gifts enter a labyrinth. Some make donations to the school or to the athletic department, and others to the boosters clubs or to the specific activity they are supporting. Some buy items themselves and give it to the school or department, making the gift part of the district inventory. But what if the gift doesn't meet state standards for schools?
Illinois Loop: Illinois Laws And Rules School Committees ptas and ptos Parent Rights InService Workshops Freedom of Information Center at the University of Missouri-columbia http://www.illinoisloop.org/illinois.html
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PTA Forum With Charlene Haar Policyrev.htm right to bargain collectively in 34 states and the district of columbia. These are typical of the noneducational, social issues on which ptas focus http://www.educationpolicy.org/files/pta/polifor.htm
Extractions: by Charlene Haar Since the publication of "A Nation at Risk" in 1983, Americans have become increasingly alarmed about the dismal results and soaring costs of their public schools. No group of citizens has a closer view of these problems or a more immediate stake in addressing them than the parents of the country's 48 million schoolchildren. Here and there, parents have won minor battles to influence curricula or oust mediocre school-board members. But as individuals, parents are no match for the forces that favor the status quo. Parents' most promising forum to agitate for reform and hold their local educators accountable for failure already exists: the venerated National Congress of Parents and Teachers, commonly known as the PTA. Unfortunately, parents cannot count on either their local PTA or its national leadership to advance parental interests or even air diverse viewpoints. As it operates today, the PTA is useless to parents who want to play a meaningful role in educational reform. The mission of the PTA has always been to "work on behalf of the best interests of all children on issues that affect their health, education, and welfare" and "to encourage parent involvement." With almost seven million members, the PTA offers great potential for promoting parental involvement in the educational welfare of children. But in the 1990s, that mission requires of the PTA something it has been unwilling to do: demand accountability for performance and spending at every level of the educational system.
Extractions: Send a Letter to the Editor Since the publication of "A Nation at Risk" in 1983, Americans have become increasingly alarmed about the dismal results and soaring costs of their public schools. No group of citizens has a closer view of these problems or a more immediate stake in addressing them than the parents of the country's 48 million schoolchildren. Here and there, parents have won minor battles to influence curricula or oust mediocre school-board members. But as individuals, parents are no match for the forces that favor the status quo. The mission of the PTA has always been to "work on behalf of the best interests of all children on issues that affect their health, education, and welfare" and "to encourage parent involvement." With almost seven million members, the PTA offers great potential for promoting parental involvement in the educational welfare of children. But in the 1990s, that mission requires of the PTA something it has been unwilling to do: demand accountability for performance and spending at every level of the educational system. Local Control Decades ago, parents had significant influence over their neighborhood schools. Over the years, however, school districts consolidated, teachers and administrators came to see themselves as credentialed professionals, and state laws standardized educational practices and curricula. Today, many parents are less likely to get involved in their children's educational environment. Nevertheless, the impetus for reform will have to come from parents active at the grass roots.
News Transcript - Bulletin Board The Marlboro K8 school district ptas, ptos and SCOPE (Special ChildrensOrganization for Parents and Educators), along with the Greater Red Bank League of http://newstranscript.gmnews.com/News/2004/0324/Bulletin_Board/
Columbian.com - News WHERE columbia Tech Center Amphitheater and in the new columbia Valley FREE booth special for schools and their ptos/ptas Set up a free booth area to http://www.columbian.com/easttownfest.cfm
Extractions: Subscriber Services Advertise With Us Contact Us Terms of Service ... Our History WHAT: WHEN: Saturday, August 20, 2005, from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. WHERE: Columbia Tech Center Amphitheater and in the new Columbia Valley Elementary School (located off of 164th Ave., on the corner of SE Tech Center Drive and SE Sequoia Circle, across from 24 Hour Fitness. ADMISSION: FREE! SPONSORS: The Columbian, Twin County Credit Union, Pac Trust, Evergreen Public Schools, City of Vancouver, the Greater Vancouver Chamber of Commerce. Columbia Valley Elementary School facilities provided by Evergreen Public Schools. Educational Service District #112 graciously provided support and information. Seafood Fest is sponsored by American Family Insurance. All entertainment is provided by Young Audiences of Oregon and Southwest Washington. Looking for programs for your class? Your youth group? Your community group or service organization? Many local art groups will be on hand to talk about or give out information on their individual school concerts and educational programs. Performing, visual and creative artists from a multitude of disciplines, including music, dance, storytelling, and puppetry are scheduled to have booths.
Organizations - Councils Top Links Capital district PTA New York Serving the local PTA units of Albany, columbia,Greene, Schoharie, and Anne Arundel County Council of ptas - Annapolis, Maryland http://www.educational-organizations.com/Top_Society_Organizations_Education_PTA
Jerry Moore's School Talk: Parent-Community Participation The Night Shift Schools, ptas Create New Ways to Involve Working Parents By SUESHELLENBARGER / THE WALL STREET At the district of columbia s Coolidge High http://www.myshortpencil.com/schooltalk/cgi-bin/discus.cgi?pg=prev&topic=2&page=
Parents Or Politics? to provide scholarships to lowincome students in the district of columbia, andcommittee provided with the tools to do their job. Local ptas frequently go http://www.freedomworks.org/informed/issues_template.php?issue_id=1845
Schools Directory Of Oregon Yoncalla, SELECT A COUNTY, Baker, Benton, Clackamas, Clatsop, columbia to helping parent teacher groups (like ptos and ptas) help their schools with http://oregon.uscity.net/Schools/
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The American Enterprise: Short News And Commentary Given the way ptas are governed, it is virtually impossible for parents to In the large Cherry Creek School district in suburban Denver, ptos have http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleid.16123/article_detail.asp
Extractions: Also in this issue Shrink government to save liberty, not just money. By Karl Zinsmeister News Scraps Should Something Be Done About Alcohol? By Robert H. Bork, William J. Bennett Days of Apathy By Peter Augustine Lawler, John Fund, Jonathan Rauch, Michael Barone Plain Independent By Hannah Lapp Short News and Commentary M ulticulturalisms next defeat When voters in California despair of a response from their state officials, they turn to referenda. Their latest end-run around recalcitrant government is the "English for the Children" initiative, which would dismantle bilingual education in California. Launched by 35-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur Ron Unz and Santa Ana school teacher Gloria Matta Tuchman, "English for the Children" would replace the states current practice of teaching non-English-speaking children in their native language with "sheltered English immersion" (that is, English designed for new learners). The measure would also provide $50 million a year for adult English classes, provided that those adults agree to use their new skills to teach English to children. Initiative supporters are now gathering signatures to qualify for the June 1998 ballot (about two-thirds of the 450,000 signatures required by November have been collected as I write). It would be difficult to exaggerate the impact this initiative will have if it passes (and all polls show that it will if it gets on the ballot). In California there are 1.3 million school-age children (23 percent of the statewide total) whose native language is not English. When they show up in public schools in most districts in California, they are placed in a "bilingual" program and receive all their academic instruction in their native language. Thus, the typical classroom for Hispanic immigrant children offers Spanish language textbooks and Spanish oral instruction. English is administered in small doses, 30 to 90 minutes a day, during "English as a Second Language."
Print : Short News And Commentary fight to establish a school choice program in the district of columbia, and regional Given the way ptas are governed, it is virtually impossible for parents http://www.taemag.com/printVersion/print_article.asp?articleID=16123
Search Results of volunteer schoolparent groups (ptos, ptas, etc.) Issues Hall, University of MissouriColumbia, MO 65211 have participated in school district book censorship http://www.macronet.org/cgi-bin/htgrep.cgi/max=250&file=search.html,datafile.htm
From Owner-puptcrit@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU Wed Apr 1 0153 Now, I m trying to contact the ptas and ptos to book shows. district ofColumbia, New York City Long Island, Maryland New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania 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"
Extractions: (KCKS) Kansas City, Kansas Council of PTA - Dates, President's Roundtable, Council officers name/address and PTA links for parent and student help in Kansas. 16th District PTA - Lexington, KY - covering the 55 schools in the Fayette County: who, what and when are answered here. 32nd District PTA - Contra Costa County, CA - resources with training workshops for 122 PTA units and 6 councils. ABC Council PTA - A California Council resource with PTA links, legislative updates, and various PTA sample forms for viewing and download. Accomack County Council of PTAs - PTA leadership, Council resources, and training for local PTA units in Virginia. Akron Council of PTAs - Council calendar, e-mail access, and Resource links, online at this Ohio PTA Council site. Alachua County Council of PTAs and PTSAs - Council PTA answers the questions to: Who, What, When and How as pertaining to this Florida unit. Albany PTA Council - Council board, meetings, training and California PTA resources.
