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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
Extractions: Alabama Alaska Arkansas Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington Washington DC West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming School Name or District Give Us Your Feedback (Page 1 of 1) The PTA is a powerful organization affiliated with many schools across the country. Here's how you can join the club. By GreatSchools.net Staff If you picture the PTA as just a small crew of moms who meet now and then to plan bake sales, you may be in for a big surprise. The Parent Teacher Association, or PTA , is a huge and very influential nationwide organization with state and local affiliates throughout the country. The national PTA is headquartered in Chicago and promotes parent involvement in school communities. It is also a powerful lobbying organization in state legislatures and in Washington, D.C., advocating on behalf of students and schools. PTA vs. PTO
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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:
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Extractions: click here Michigan-Achieves.org - a website funded by the Michigan Department of Education under a federal Title II Grant. Michigan Achieves is a consortium of professional associations in Michigan whose mission is to communicate and implement the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act Check ou t your teacher's certification status with Michigan 's Teacher Certification Lookup tool - click here No Child Left Behind: A Desktop Reference This Desktop Reference outlines what is new under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 for each program supported under the Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965 and other statutes. It also describes how the Act's four guiding principles (accountability, flexibility and local control, parental choice, and what works) are brought to bear on many of these programs. Choose a category to begin: Legislation, Regulations and Guidance (Download and/or view the No Child Left Behind Act) English Language Learners/Second Language (ELL/ESL) Adequate Yearly Progress Teacher Qualifications Tutoring Supplemental Services ... EducationYES!
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Extractions: Fundraising Gone Wild! How much is too much? Recent research indicates that 71% of parents are concerned and overwhelmed with having to do more fundraising. Not only are schools running multiple programs each year, parents are also tapped by the local little league, football teams, Girl Scouts, and so forth. Parents and kids are simply burned out on the subject. Naturally, concerned parents who question why they need to do more also will want to know what they are doing it for. Kukta advises organizations to concentrate on the fundraiser that makes the most money for the school. To return participation to effective levels, fundraising experts recommend that organizations considering schoolwide programs forego adding too many fundraisers to the calendar. PTAs, PTOs, parents and faculty need to talk to each other and work together to deliver a common fundraising program that accomplishes a worthwhile goal.
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Extractions: Back to the PTO Today Blog and Latest News Another of our regional Parent Group of the Year honorees profiled. This neat Arizona group was our Southwest winner . Did I mention that EPI Fundraising is a generous sponsor of our annual best-of search? Posted by tsullivan at 09:45 PM Wow. Chester Finn of the Fordham Foundation takes this week's Washington Post article on PTO v PTA and goes one step further. If you're a PTA leader or PTA watcher, you just have to read this education expert's tough take on the 2004 national PTA Posted by tsullivan at 10:16 PM Love it! Michigan PTO hosts Very Important Persons all week at school lunchtime . All part of an effort to get parents and caregivers connected with school. Posted by tsullivan at 10:09 PM Love this quick piece for two reasons: 1) Couldn't agree more with the "involvement matters" message ; and 2) Like how editorial makes clear that PTOs and PTAs have same exact goals.
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Extractions: A drug is any chemical that produces a therapeutic or non-therapeutic effect in the body. Chemicals, on the other hand, are a broad class of substances including drugs that may or may not produce noticeable effects in the body. Many chemicals (such as tin, lead, gold) have harmful effects on the body, especially in high doses. Most foods are not drugs. Alcohol is a drug not a food, in spite of the calories it provides. Nicotine is a chemical that is also a drug. The group of "illegal" drugs includes dangerous chemicals that have only toxic actions, such as inhalants.
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Citizen Magazine - Cover Story - P Is For Politically Correct Unhappiness with the PTA has led a number of parents to form ptosParent Teacher Ruth Rose, a michigan mom, hit upon a similar answer. http://www.family.org/cforum/citizenmag/coverstory/a0016949.cfm
Extractions: P is for Politically Correct Think Parent Teacher Associations uphold family values in the public schools? Think again. By Heather Koerner Think Parent Teacher T hey're involved in everything from back-to-school night to teacher appreciation lunches, from classroom volunteering to shelving library books. They raise money through dances, golf tournaments, cookbooks and, yes, even pig-kissing contests.
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Extractions: Home Short Publications Bowling with Tocqueville Bowling with Tocqueville Print Mail Civic Engagement and Social Capital By Everett Carll Ladd Posted: Saturday, January 1, 2000 SPEECHES Bradley Lecture (Washington) Publication Date: September 15, 1998 If some public pleasure is concerned, an association is formed to give more splendor and regularity to the entertainment. Societies are formed to resist evils that are exclusively of a moral nature, as to diminish the vice of intemperance. In the United States associations are established to promote the public safety, commerce, industry, morality, and religion. . . .The Americans make associations to give entertainment's, to found seminaries, to build ins, to construct churches, to diffuse books, to send missionaries to the antipodes; in the manner they found hospital, prisons, and schools. . . .There is no end which the human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united into a society. . . . Alexis de Tocqueville
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Extractions: Top Society Organizations ... Education : PTA National PTA - Oldest and largest volunteer association in the United States working exclusively on behalf of children and youth. California State PTA Alaska PTA Georgia PTA Kansas PTA ... PTOtoday Magazine - Exclusively focused on the work of school parent groups (PTOs, PTAs, etc). Includes discussion board for idea sharing. Iowa PTA Maine State PTA Indiana PTA Virginia PTA ... Ohio PTA - State of Ohio PTA Volunteers At Schools Everywhere - Forum for idea sharing regarding school volunteering opportunities; by organizing volunteers and exchanging the unique ways that individuals have helped to make their school function better, we can improve education everywhere. Louisiana PTA Ohio PTA - District 13 www.KOLISRAEL.com LinkExchange Member
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