61. PAGE NOT FOUND washington Post — Homeroom column; stories in Gazette; More information that is distributed to forums after 2 nd month of school so ptas, ptos and parenting http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/info/community/detail/WatkinsMillParent.html

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62. The Arts Council Of Fairfax County Members of CAPs currently include schools, ptas and ptos, corporations and community organizations throughout the metropolitan washington DC area. http://www.artsfairfax.org/caps.shtml

Home Press Room Member Groups Get Involved ... Contact Arts in the Community Gold from the Guilds Open Exhibition Int'l Children's Festival Related Links Arts in Education Congressional District Art Competition Video Fairfax Competition Creative Arts Programs (CAPs) Arts in Business Business and the Arts Luncheon Corporate Art Program Arts in Government Government Art Program Arts Council of Fairfax County Board of Directors Staff Creative Arts Programs (CAPs) The Creative Arts Programs (CAPs) unite performing, visual and literary artists with schools, community groups and corporations in search of high quality arts programs for education, recreation and enrichment purposes. A membership-only program, CAPs has been produced by the Arts Council of Fairfax County (VA.) since 1970. Members of CAPs currently include schools, PTAs and PTOs, corporations and community organizations throughout the metropolitan Washington D.C. area.

63. Every Student A Citizen: Creating The Democratic Self Reconstitute ptas and ptos as Parent, Teacher, Student Associations/Organizations, Paul Loeb, author and lecturer on citizenship, washington 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

64. TSPR Dallas Independent School District - Chapter 3 Booker T. washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts Advisory, Community with ptas/ptos. Houston, 100%. Hillsborough (Tampa), 99% http://www.window.state.tx.us/tspr/dallas/ch03c3.htm

Texas School Performance Review Dallas Independent School District June 2001 Chapter 3 COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT This chapter reviews Dallas Independent School District's (DISD) communications and community relations efforts in four sections: A. Organization and Management B. Internal and External Communications C. Community Relations Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 D. Broadcast Services C. COMMUNITY RELATIONS (PART 3) In addition to DISD's 16 Community Network advisory groups and task forces monitored by the Community Relations Division, the district has 41 districtwide advisory committees ( Exhibit 3-22 ) that are loosely monitored by several different departments. Some of the advisory groups include district employees, some include community members and others include a combination of both. They cover a wide variety of topics and interest areas. Exhibit 3-22 presents a listing of DISD's districtwide advisory committees. Exhibit 3-22 DISD Districtwide Advisory Committees Name Type Purpose Meeting Schedule Number of Members Expiration of Term District Community 75/25 Waiver District To review and approve requests for campuses to deviate from the staffing ratios of the Desegregation Court Order.

65. Plano ISD ENews Registration Information Virgin Islands, Virginia, washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Yukon Territory Campus ptas/ptos, School Board Members, Neighbors/Friends http://elist.pisd.edu/getinfo.php

Plano I.S.D. eNews Registration Information (required fields are red) Your e-mail address : Confirm e-mail address : Password : Confirm Password : First Name : Last Name : Age : Please Select One under 18 60 or over Gender : Male Female Address : City : State or Province : Outside US and Canada Alabama Alaska Alberta American Samoa Arizona Arkansas Armed Forces Americas Armed Forces Europe Armed Forces Pacific British Columbia California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District Of Columbia Florida Georgia Guam Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Manitoba Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Brunswick New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Newfoundland North Carolina North Dakota Northern Mariana Is Northwest Territories Nova Scotia Ohio Oklahoma Ontario Oregon Palau Pennsylvania Prince Edward Island Quebec Puerto Rico Rhode Island Saskatchewan South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virgin Islands Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Yukon Territory ZIP or Postal Code : Country : United States of America Canada Afghanistan Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antarctica Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegowina Botswana Bouvet Island Brazil British Indian Ocean Territory Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Cape Verde

66. Plano ISD ENews Registration Information Translate this page Virginia, washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Yukon Territory Organizaciones de voluntario escolares ptas/ptos, Miembros de la Junta de http://elist.pisd.edu/getinfo_sp.php

Información de Registro de Plano I.S.D. eNews (campo en rojo es requerido) Dirección de Correo Electrónico : Confirmar Dirección de Correo Electrónico : Contraseña : Confirme Contraseña : Nombre : Apellido : Edad : Por favor seleccione uno menos de 18 60 o mas Masculino Femenina Cuidad : Estado o Provincia : Outside US and Canada Alabama Alaska Alberta American Samoa Arizona Arkansas Armed Forces Americas Armed Forces Europe Armed Forces Pacific British Columbia California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District Of Columbia Florida Georgia Guam Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Manitoba Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Brunswick New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Newfoundland North Carolina North Dakota Northern Mariana Is Northwest Territories Nova Scotia Ohio Oklahoma Ontario Oregon Palau Pennsylvania Prince Edward Island Quebec Puerto Rico Rhode Island Saskatchewan South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virgin Islands Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Yukon Territory United States of America Canada Afghanistan Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antarctica Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegowina Botswana Bouvet Island Brazil British Indian Ocean Territory Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Cape Verde Cayman Islands

67. Gunter Elementary PTO as the national PTA maintains a washington lobbying office and most state ptas advocate at ptos and ptas are more alike than they are different. http://www.gunterpto.org/faq.htm

Welcome to the website of ... Gunter Elementary PTO "... making a difference in the lives of children." Contents General Gunter PTO Home Gunter ISD Home News Page Activities ... View Guestbook For Parents FAQs Handbook Traffic Tips Contact Info Officers School Officials Elementary Staff Misc. Webmaster Activities Board By-Laws Finances News Fundraising Links PDF Absence Note JPG Absence Note What is the difference between a PTO and a PTA? The technical differences between a PTA and a PTO are fairly simple. The national PTA is a formal membership organization headquartered in Chicago with a 103-year history of working for children. Local groups that choose to belong to the PTA must pay dues to the state and national organization and abide by state and national group rules. In return they get member benefits, and they get a voice in the operations of the larger organization. PTA groups also have a political voice, as the national PTA maintains a Washington lobbying office and most state PTAs advocate at their respective state capitals. The PTA carefully protects its name, so that—in theory—only dues-paying members of the group can call themselves "PTA." "PTO," on the other hand, is a more generic term. It generally represents the thousands of groups that choose to remain independent of the PTA. The acronym PTO is the most popular name, but other common names include PTG (Parent Teacher Group), and HAS (Home and School Association). These are most often single-school groups that operate under their own by-laws and—by and large—concern themselves with the goings-on at their building or in their town only.

68. Education Directory Of Washington PTO today is dedicated to helping parent teacher groups (like ptos and ptas) help their schools Link Your Business in the washington Education Directory http://washington.uscity.net/Education/

69. Schools Directory Of Washington washington Schools Directory Internet Business Directory for the United States to helping parent teacher groups (like ptos and ptas) help their schools http://washington.uscity.net/Schools/

70. Columbian.com - News is provided by Young Audiences of Oregon and Southwest washington. FREE booth special for schools and their ptos/ptas Set up a free booth area to http://www.columbian.com/easttownfest.cfm

63°F Forecast Marketplace ColumbianTalk PDXGuide Search: Columbian.com Marketplace ColumbianTalk.com Monday, September 26, 2005 Home Subscribe Contact Us Advertise ... 63°F CLEAR Marketplace Jobs Real Estate/Rentals Classifieds Shopping ... Special Sections Top Jobs OPERATIONS/ MANAGEMENT Experienced Assistant Opera... Automotive Parts Counter Person Immediate opening ... DELIVERY DRIVER Locally owned regional wholesale s... Airline JOB FAIR Wed., Sept 28, 2004 10:00am - 4... ... All Top Jobs ColumbianTalk Discussion Forums Calendar Entertainment Dining ... Music Site Services 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.

71. Community Cares Bowling Alone The Collapse And Revival Of American by Roper, ptos vastly outnumbered ptas; the trend less institutionalized groups such as ptos is a as membership organizations based in washington, which do http://www.carleton.ca/~pryan/downloads/Fukuyama.txt

72. GrinBlog » Blog Archive » PTOs And PTAs gotta know how it feels I want to know if your love is wild Girl I want to know if love is real. 10/19/2004. ptos and ptas. Filed under http://www.grinberg.ws/blog/index.php?p=508

73. Effective Advocacy - Parent Network Of WNY Check out other parent groups such as the Special Education ptas, ptas, ptos, Home School Associations, Special Education Parent Advisory Committee (Buffalo http://www.parentnetworkwny.org/Home/NewsletterArchive/AprilMay2003/EffectiveAdv

Resources Special Insights Newsletter Archive June 2005 ... Extranet Search: Home Newsletter Archive April - May 2003 Effective Advocacy (April/May 2003) It can be quite easy for parents of children with special needs to become overwhelmed. Trying to prioritize everything from homework to teacher conferences, or from IEP development to soccer practice, can be a taxing venture for even the most energetic of parents. Now, for a number of reasons, some of the protections and services that our children have enjoyed over the years are now being put into question. And, as a parent of a child with special needs, it is imperative that you pay particular attention to the happenings in Washington, D.C., during this budget year. In the past few editions of Special Insights , we have shared information about the No Child Left Behind Act which continues to be shaped and formed, while also this year, Congress will have to reauthorize the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). This comes in conjunction with several other pieces of important legislation that are coming up for reauthorization. To maintain critical services and protections your child needs, it is important that you communicate your concerns to your U.S. Senator and Respresentative, as well as your state Senator and Assemblyperson (if you are unsure who they are, call the League of Women Voters at 884-3550). Advocates, mostly parents of children with special needs, have had to strongly lobby in the past to help ensure that these protections stay in place. It appears to be that time again. Now, parents need to become more educated on what kind of impact decisions made in Washington and Albany can have on their child's educational and vocational programs. Following are some general tips when contacting public officials:

74. JS Online: Some PTAs Say They're Fed Up With Fund Raising In districts such as Appleton, Waukesha and Whitefish Bay, ptas and ptos have reduced the ways they squeeze cash from neighbors and coworkers, sometimes even http://www.jsonline.com/news/wauk/sep00/pta04090300a.asp

More Classifieds... Merchandise Rummage Sales Tickets Contests Personals Place ads online More... Subscriber Services... Get the Journal Sentinel Manage your account - Vacation holds - Make Payments Get Packer Plus Place classified ads Photo reprints PressCard discounts Celebrations Front pages online News Business Sports Entertainment ... Careers Also see: Business 411 E-newsletter News Business Sports ... Stuff Also see: Personals AdFinder Tickets Coupons ... PRINT THIS STORY Some PTAs say they're fed up with fund raising School parent groups look to scale back or rethink what they raise money for By Amy Hetzner of the Journal Sentinel staff Last Updated: Sept. 4, 2000 The Banting Bolt will run on, but parents have put the lid on Tupperware for Technology. Long depended on in a pinch to provide a check to cover extra field trip expenses or another jungle gym for the school playground, some parent-teacher organizations are questioning - and even backing away from - their role as their schools' main fund-raising arm. In districts such as Appleton, Waukesha and Whitefish Bay, PTAs and PTOs have reduced the ways they squeeze cash from neighbors and co-workers, sometimes even limiting what they will buy for their schools. Banting Elementary School in Waukesha eliminated all of its fund-raisers except for an annual run, and a Whitefish Bay school shelved its Tupperware sale. PTA and school officials say fund-raisers in general are getting closer scrutiny because of volunteer burnout, tapped-out money sources and concerns about how such funding affects equity among their districts' schools, with some better able than others to raise big bucks.

75. JS Online: Spaghetti Dinners Becoming Schools' Bread And Butter That s regrettable. . Still, playgrounds are becoming a common purchase for ptas and ptos, even in districts with larger financial problems. http://www.jsonline.com/news/wauk/sep00/wpta03090200a.asp

More Classifieds... Merchandise Rummage Sales Tickets Contests Personals Place ads online More... Subscriber Services... Get the Journal Sentinel Manage your account - Vacation holds - Make Payments Get Packer Plus Place classified ads Photo reprints PressCard discounts Celebrations Front pages online News Business Sports Entertainment ... Careers Also see: Business 411 E-newsletter News Business Sports ... Stuff Also see: Personals AdFinder Tickets Coupons ... PRINT THIS STORY Spaghetti dinners becoming schools' bread and butter Parent groups' fund-raisers help pay for upgrades in classrooms, libraries, playgrounds By Amy Hetzner of the Journal Sentinel staff Last Updated: Sept. 2, 2000 If teachers seem a little freer with the staples, if schoolchildren are playing outside a little longer and if students are getting more chances to hone their computer skills - parent fund-raisers likely should get the credit. PTA spaghetti dinners and PTO magazine sales are helping pay for everything from staplers to playgrounds to computers for schools, where once they might have only funded field trips and dances. "We have to provide for our children," said Mary Finman, a member of the Parent-Teacher Organization for Waukesha's Hawthorne Elementary School, where parents led an effort to get new desks earlier this year, helped by both cash and in-kind donations. "And if the district is not capable of doing it, the parent organization is going to have to. We'd like to just be buying the . . . extras, but that's not possible."

76. 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

THE PTA GOES KAPUT 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:

77. 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

Beyond Bake Sales 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.

78. 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/

79. Multistate Tax Commission Home Page Each year, schools, school groups, ptas, ptos, youth sports leagues and other nonprofit organizations raise nearly $2 billion by selling merchandise to the http://www.mtc.gov/TXPYRSVS/Services(3).htm

About the MTC Policy Resolutions Uniformity Taxpayer Services ... Home Preference will be given to requests from taxpayers that: 1. Have nexus with ten or more States participating in the MTC Joint Audit Program, and 2. Meet one or both of the following criteria: Present tax issues that would benefit from a consistent determination of tax liability among a group of States. Have recently registered with at least ten States participating in the MTC Joint Audit Program, have never been audited by those States, and that seek the guidance and education on tax filing responsibilities that arise from an audit. In deciding whether or not to place the requesting taxpayer in the Program's audit inventory, the MTC Audit Committee will consider these factors: 1. Whether or not the taxpayer meets or exceeds the preference criteria above. 2. The availability of audit staff resources within the MTC Joint Audit Program.

80. PTA ptas work for children. ptas meet together, study problems, support teachers, Since ptos are independent of any state or national organization, http://schools.katyisd.org/campus/mcjh/pta2.htm

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