41. Anaconda! Foundation Directory units in ohio. Lawrence Schools Area Council http//community.lawrence.com/orgs/ info/LSAC Organization information for the Council serving ptas and ptos in http://www.educationsites.us/cgi-bin/apexec.cgi?etype=odp&passurl=/Society/Organ

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43. New Page 0 While ptas must pay national dues, that is not the case with ptos, which use membership income At Greensview Elementary School in Upper Arlington, ohio, http://www.ptc.edu/beck/Publication links/Membership_fees.htm

Should Parents Pay to Participate? PTO membership fees mean more cash — but maybe fewer volunteers By Evelyn Beck Some schools have made a big deal about getting rid of it. Others never had it. Some couldn't do without it. In amounts ranging from $2 at Gray's Woods Elementary School in Port Matilda, Pa., to $25 at Brandon Academy in Brandon, Fla., "it" is the PTO membership fee. And opinions vary widely on whether charging parents to join a volunteer organization is a good idea. While PTAs must pay national dues, that is not the case with PTOs, which use membership income in a variety of ways. Sometimes it is designated as seed money for the year, while other times it goes into the organization's general fund. Sometimes it's set aside for a specific need, such as insurance. At Greensview Elementary School in Upper Arlington, Ohio, $5 is collected from each member to cover both PTO membership and room party fees. At Barrington High School in Barrington, Ill., most of the PTO's $27,000 annual budget comes from membership fees, and $7,000 of this amount goes to fund the school's impressive college advisory program. The program culminates in a fair attended by 400 colleges and universities. But how does this kind of fee affect membership? The $20 membership fee charged by the Barrington High PTO certainly hasn't hurt participation, which PTO advisor Cinda Pittman estimates at 50 percent of the families of the school's 2,500 students. "In this school district, people just take it for granted," she says, adding that Illinois parents already have to pay almost $300 in book and technology fees each year. "It starts in elementary school with a membership fee of $3 to $5, then $10 at the middle school, and by the time the children get to high school, parents are used to it. They assume that to join the PTO, you have to pay a membership fee. We never hear any complaints about it, and it's not controversial."

44. New Page 0 She says, “ptos or ptas could have a committee, a web of information experts who Paul Young, principal of West Elementary School in Lancaster, ohio, http://www.ptc.edu/beck/No_Child_Left_Behind.htm

No Child Left Behind A New Focus for Schools. A New Role for Parent Groups? Story by Evelyn Beck Since the No Child Left Behind Act became law in 2001, school administrators have spent a lot of time wrangling with its complexities. The controversial legislation is changing, in many respects, the way schools operate. And as more provisions of the law take effect, those changes will impact parent groups, too. Initially, many parent groups hosted informational sessions to help parents sort out what NCLB means for their children. Now, groups are finding that it also may have far-reaching effects on their own role in the school. In particular, they are trying to assess their evolving role in curriculum improvement. NCLB seeks to improve American schools by increasing accountability. In every state that receives federal education funding, each public school must measure the abilities of every child in reading and math in each of grades 3-8 and at least once in grades 10-12. Testing in science will be required beginning in the fall of 2007. In addition to receiving the scores of their own children, parents also receive “report cards” on the achievements of their children’s school and school district. Parents with children in schools that do not meet state standards for at least two years in a row have the option to transfer their children to another district public school with better scores—with transportation provided by the district.

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SEARCH: Keywords Author Title More Options Power Search Search Hints E-MAIL NOTICES NEW IN PRINT E-BOOKS ... HOME PAGE School Choice: The Moral Debate Edited by Alan Wolfe Book Description Endorsements Class Use and other Permissions . For more information, send e-mail to permissions@pupress.princeton.edu This file is also available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format INTRODUCTION Alan Wolfe I After a long period during which the minds of most Americans turned to other matters, questions of education are now very much a central concern to them, both as parents and as citizens. Many of the issues that have begun to dominate the news and the speeches of political candidates have a long history behind them, such as school discipline, testing, character education, and issues of income and racial inequality. Accompanying them, however, has been a concern with school choice that suggests a departure from previous debates. Whether hailed as a needed kick in the pants or condemned as a radical attack on public schooling, school choice is a new terrain involving new ideas, new figures, new alignments, and new solutions. Because it is so controversial an idea, school choice has generated an impassioned debate. A good deal of that debate involves questions of effectiveness. Scholars on different sides of the issue challenge one another's methodologies, findings, and, alas, motives. That is, except perhaps for motives, as it should be. Eventually the dust will settle, the statistical evidence will point one way or another, or perhaps both, and minds will (or will not) be made up. But it is also important to remember that questions of effectiveness are not the only questions raised by a greater emphasis on parental choice. Ideas about choice, like ideas about education throughout all of American history, touch on fundamental questions of our public philosophy: the kind of people we want to be, the requirements for economic and racial equality, the nature of the institutions we wish to see flourish, and our ideas about private and public character.

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50. Loudoun Easterner Newspaper- News And Articles Days later, in a letter sent to school principals, ptas and ptos, Chairman Scott K. He was born June 16, 1937 in Cleveland, ohio, lived in Greensboro, http://www.easterner.com/articles02/110602/news.cfm

51. Loudoun Easterner Newspaper- News And Articles 5 letter York sent to principals, ptas and ptos after Sheriff Simpson reduced the number of 22, 1931 in Celina, ohio. Survivors include her husband, http://www.easterner.com/articles02/100902/news.cfm

52. Every Student A Citizen: Creating The Democratic Self Rich Games, Sojourners Care Network, ohio Reconstitute ptas and ptos as Parent, Teacher, Student Associations/Organizations, according student members http://www.ecs.org/clearinghouse/16/91/1691.htm

ECS Executive Summary Education Commission of the States • 700 Broadway, Suite 1200 • Denver, CO 80203-3460 • 303-299-3600 • fax 303-296-8332 • www.ecs.org Every Student A Citizen: Creating the Democratic Self Campaign for Action Compact for Learning and Citizenship National Study Group on Citizenship in K-12 Schools Acknowledgments The National Study Group on Citizenship in K-12 Schools Sheila Bailey, education consultant, Vermont Elsa Banuelos, student organizer, West High School, Colorado Jill Blair, principal, BTW Consultants – informing change, California Steve Bonchek, executive director, Harmony School Education Center, Indiana Bernadette Chi, graduate student researcher, University of California-Berkeley Todd Clark, executive director, Constitutional Rights Foundation, California Thomas Ehrlich, senior scholar, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Stanford University, California Donald Ernst, government affairs director, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Virginia Robert Franco, chairman – social science; professor of anthropology, Kapi'olani Community College, Hawaii

53. Community Partnership For Arts And Culture Communicate the values of arts and cultural education to ptas and ptos. Pursue ohio Arts Council planning grants to develop arts and cultural education http://www.cultureplan.org/events_action_dec1.htm

Lake County Area Action Discussion Wednesday, December 1, 1999 I. Purpose and Location The Partnership conducted the Lake County Area County Area Action Discussion to achieve: A public review of goals and preliminary objectives. These goals, drafted by The Partnership's community dialogue subcommittee and its executive steering committee, are the product of information collected at 21 community dialogues held between April and November 1998. A total of 700 area residents from all walks of life participated. The preliminary objectives are the product of information collected at 12 focus sessions held from February to April 1999. An additional 190 area residents participated in the second series of public meetings. Provide the community with an opportunity to discuss in a priority ranking consistent with the site the preliminary objectives and to offer potential actions for accomplishing objectives. The goals and preliminary objective statements are: EDUCATION GOAL: A system of lifelong learning opportunities that engages all area residents in the practice, appreciation, and participatory experience of arts and culture. Preliminary Education Objectives: To develop collaborations To integrate with core curriculum To communicate values RESOURCES GOAL: Financial and other capacity building resources to sustain and grow the arts and cultural sector for regional residents' long-term benefit.

54. West Clermont Local School District rules and to learn about other safety programs available to ptos and ptas. ohio law requires transportation of students in kindergarten through http://www.westcler.k12.oh.us/public_html/index.php/html/parents/parents_transpo

Subscribe to our email news updates For Parents Main Page Character Qualities College Finances ... Volunteers Transportation We subcontract our transportation through Petermann Transportation: 752-4020. Click here to view Petermann's web site. Grades K-3 Safety Programs All K-3 children receive special safety instruction. Petermann’s programs include its Walk-Ride-Walk and the Be Cool, Follow the Rules programs. All programs have colorful children’s handouts like the Back to School Safely Activity book and Welcome to Safetyville coloring book. These programs also include handouts for parents as well as videos for PTA meetings to show parents their part in safe school transportation. Grades 4-12 Safety Petermann also provides safety instruction to 4 th to 12 th graders, teaching these older students the principles of being a safe rider, including the ten rules of school bus safety. Parents, please do your part to help us keep your children safe while riding the school bus. Review these important safety rules with your children. Click here to read the Petermann safety rules and to learn about other safety programs available to PTOs and PTAs.

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How to Get Involved in Cincinnati Public Schools There are many ways that parents, community members, businesses and organizations can get involved in the Cincinnati Public School District. Check with Your Local School Opportunities abound at each and every local school. Different schools need help in different ways. Check with the principal about what your school needs. Volunteers: Some are looking for people to help out in classrooms, lunchrooms and on the playground. Others are searching for volunteers to help with field trips or in the office. Parent Organizations: Many schools have Parent Teacher Associations (PTAs) or Parent Teacher Organizations (PTOs) that organize many events and fund-raising efforts for the school and are looking for active members. Lecturers and Guest Speakers: Schools can always use volunteers to speak on Career Days or share some special talent or skill with young people. Donations: Often schools are searching for special materials like leftover wood, fabric, paint, etc. that children can use express their creativity and make art and class projects.

56. Essay Contest with locally generated funds or from special grants from ohio Partners in sponsors for their contests, such as service groups, ptos and ptas, or other http://charactereducationohio.org/Contest/Contest.htm

You are visitor What is the Laws of Life Essay Contest? The Laws of Life essay contest was created by Sir John Templeton in 1987 to encourage young people to reflect and write about their “laws of life” or the core values and ideals by which they live their life. The Templeton Foundation provides encouragement and technical assistance to local schools and communities that wish to sponsor contests. OPCE has embraced this program as an important component in developing the character of Ohio youth. How will a Laws of Life Essay Contest benefit schools or communities? By sponsoring a contest, schools and communities communicate to their youth that they believe ethical and moral development is important. Research tells us that students who reflect and think about ideas learn them at a deeper level. And, t he Laws of Life program integrates character development into the writing curriculum. It provides students with a compelling occasion to write, edit, and revise - critical components of the writing process. Although Laws of Life can be administered as an extra-credit option or an extracurricular activity, teachers are encouraged to integrate the contest into the curriculum as a class assignment. This allows students to engage in the full writing process of brainstorming, outlining, drafting, peer review, editing, and final copy. The process of writing Laws of Life essays stimulates students and gives them greater motivation to write - thus providing an additional opportunity to prepare for writing assessments.

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WELCOME TO SUMMIT COUNTY FORUMS You are readying the NS7 Archives. The Northern Summit County discussion forums can be found here: http://forums.northernsummit.org - Come sign up for free! Serving the citizens of the following communities: Macedonia, Ohio Boston Heights, Ohio Twinsburg, Ohio Twinsburg Township, Ohio Northfield Village, Ohio Northfield Center Township, Ohio Hudson, Ohio Sagamore Hills, Ohio Reminderville, Ohio Subject: From: NorthSummit7@aol.com Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 00:46:30 EST To: NorthSummit7@aol.com NORTHSUMMIT7@AOL.COM http://www.cleveland.com/medina/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/medina/110310692 1237320.xml I do not know if PTAs can legally support school levies, but there is a definite lack of involvement in our PTAs. Many parents see the National PTA as simply an extension of the liberal NEA. Conservative parents do not want to be involved with an organization that is an obvious tool for teacher's unions and for groups pushing gay rights, early sex education and other controversial agendas. I've also heard many PTA moms complain that "we send them dues and don't get anything in return". The fact that Rushwood could not find anyone to run for PTA President is a testament to the lack of interest. The following articles make the case for moving to school-specific groups where all of the energy and dues of the PTO go into projects and activities at your own child's school. http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/x3765443936.pdf

59. V-Apr2000-Warren PPS differs from ptas and ptos in that Cincinnati, ohio, chapter collaborated with other community organizations in a successful bond campaign last year. http://www.mea.org/Design.cfm?p=2768

60. Rochelle Riley: Detroiters Picture A Bright Future For The City She was born in Wellston, ohio, but moved to Detroit when she was 2, so she says her early history is immaterial. Parents are absolutely critical. ptas. ptos. http://www.freep.com/news/metro/riley31_20001231.htm

Home News Sports Entertainment ... Rochelle Riley SECTIONS Today's stories Metro Wayne Oakland ... Place an ad Rochelle Riley: Detroiters picture a bright future for the city December 31, 2000 TODAY IS THE LAST OF a century, the final hurrah of an era that gave new meaning to civil rights and urban planning, to space exploration and global communication, to the Electoral College. It gave us realities that were once dreams and dreams that will someday be realities. We saw communist empires and sports records fall. We watched the No. 1 TV show in the country star a black family. We saw the U.S. Constitution at work and wondered whether it remains the best guideline for a country founded by rebels who displaced Indians and enslaved Africans to pursue their manifest destiny in a land far from a king. We saw native Americans create a way to survive through sheer will, then gambling, and African Americans achieve success and freedom through culture, art and sport, then academia and politics. Here in Detroit, a city watched itself be molded like a beloved old car, lauded as a model to be replicated, then damaged in a 1943 crash into racial and economic reality. Then it was rebuilt, repainted and polished before crashing again into that same racial tree in 1967 and being left to rust.

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