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Marketplace Services Contact Us Community ... Local Guides [an error occurred while processing this directive] National/World News Home Page News Sports Business ... E-mail Us Monday, September 11, 2000 PTAs rethink fund-raising roles Some parent groups are shifting emphasis to changing state policies By Amy Hetzner Scripps Howard News Service WAUKESHA, Wis. - 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. 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. This year, the PTAs in Wisconsin districts encouraged members to convert the energy they have expended on hawking magazine subscriptions to buy school equipment into a campaign to change state policies and improve school funding. "There have been so many fund-raisers for so many parts of kids' lives," said Nikki Beckwith, PTA council president for the Wauwatosa School District, where parents have debated how much fund-raising they should be doing and what they ought to buy.

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Wisconsin Agency: Wisconsin Dept. of Revenue Contact Person: Michael Hinnendael Tel. No.: (608) 267-5022 Fax No.: (608) 261-6240 E-mail: mhinnen@dor.state.wi.us If your State exempts fundraising sales by certain groups from sales or use taxes, please indicate which of the following are exempt in your State. Public Schools (K-12) - Exempt ( See Note 1 Private Schools (K-12) - Exempt ( See Note 1 School Groups (e.g., clubs, bands, teams) - Exempt ( See Note 2 PTAs - Exempt ( See Note 2 PTOs - Exempt ( See Note 2 Other parent groups - Exempt ( See Note 2 (please identify) Church Groups - Exempt ( See Note 2 Youth Sports League - Exempt ( See Note 2 501 (c)(3) organizations - Exempt ( See Note 2 501 (c)(6) organizations - Exempt ( See Note 2 Other (specify:) 1a Are local sales and use taxes in your State applied to these groups in the same manner as State sales and use taxes are applied to these groups? Yes 1b Please set forth any comments including a list of groups not listed above whose fundraising activities are exempt from sales and use taxation in your State. If your State exempts fundraising sales of certain products from sales and use tax, please indicate which of the following products are exempt.

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Consolidated Plan Overarching Themes Implementation of the LEA Consolidated Plan will result in: Substantial, measurable, and positive impact on student academic achievement Closing the achievement gap between subgroups of students Substantial, measurable, and positive impact on increasing teacher capacity and quality Ensuring that every school is safe, drug free, and conducive to learning Employing effective integration of technology into curricula and instruction Continuous improvement - refining, improving, and strengthening the programs I. Describe how the LEAs will: Develop a “consolidated local plan” that meets the requirements of each covered program (Titles I, II, III, IV, and V), aligns with other district or school improvement plans, and indicates how ESEA competitive funds and other grants or programs assist the district in meeting the priority goals, objectives, and performance requirements for improving student achievement. Themes: Questions: How will district consolidated plans enhance/respond to your district’s vision, mission, or core beliefs?

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26. Should Parents Pay To Participate? | PTO Today While ptas must pay national dues, that is not the case with ptos, associate professor of educational psychology at the University of wisconsin–Madison, http://www.ptotoday.com/0303membership.html

PTO Today Magazine Article Archives Should Parents Pay to Participate? 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."

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Search Rethinking Schools Help Home Archives Volume 17 No. 3- Spring 2003 'A Ghetto Within a Ghetto' 'A Ghetto Within a Ghetto' -photo: Jean-Claude Lejeune African-American students are over-represented in special education programs. Spring 2003 By Joel McNally The disproportionate placement of African-American males into special education classes has created a "a ghetto within a ghetto," says Gary Orfield, co-director of Harvard University's Civil Rights Project. Orfield says that this racial disparity makes it less likely that black students receive high school diplomas, less likely they will be employed after leaving school, and more likely they will end up in the criminal justice system. "This is segregation within segregation," Orfield said. "For a lot of these kids, this is a direct path to jail. It becomes an irreversible punishment in these kids' lives. This is taking a bad problem and putting it inside another even worse problem. It's just unconscionable." Orfield is co-editor with Daniel Losen of the newly published Racial Inequity in Special Education

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The Crack in the Picture Window By Benjamin R. Barber Is our sense of community eroding? A review of the new book by sociologist Robert Putnam . Benjamin R. Barber is director of the Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy, at Rutgers University. He is the author of "Jihad vs. McWorld" (Ballantine) and "A Passion for Democracy" (Princeton), among other works. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. By Robert D. Putnam. F IVE YEARS AGO Ever since, Putnam has been trying to make wise use of the funds in which his social capital project has been awash, hiring scores of researchers, running high-end seminars, scrutinizing a century of survey materials while simultaneously defending the flanks of his argument from ongoing assault, misunderstanding and abuse. The result is "Bowling Alone" (the book!), subtitled "The Collapse and Revival of American Community," although there is far more here about the collapse that has actually occurred than about the "revival" Putnam so earnestly wishes for. Now, I have been both a general admirer of Putnam's thesis about social decline in the original essay and a specific critic of the way he set about measuring that decline and how he explained it. But it is hard to remain skeptical in light of the formidable survey research and explanatory work Putnam has done. Indeed, he has taken what was a useful political polemic (we're losing faith in our political and civic system and each other!) and transformed it into a powerful sociological portrait of a democracy in imminent decline-a portrait as perspicacious, deeply felt and firmly rooted in data as the classic American portraits rendered in such works as "An American Dilemma," "Middletown" and "The Lonely Crowd."

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Main Search MAIN MENU NEWS LIST! ... Public Relations Class Size, School Size, District Size On this page: Class Size School Size District Size Class Size Effects of Reducing Class Size No clear evidence of improved learning Smaller classes -> More classes -> More classrooms required Smaller classes -> More classes -> More teachers required More teachers -> Increases union revenues More teachers -> Lower the bar on teacher hiring Enables introduction of more ineffective progressivist methods Reduces teacher workload Putting the Fox in Charge of the Hen House; Or, Why School Reform Often Fails to Improve Education by J. Martin Rochester, Curators Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and author of Class Warfare: Besieged Schools, Betrayed Kids, Bewildered Parents, and the Attack on Excellence . Excerpt: "Progressive educators say they want to individualize instruction. The only way this stands any chance of working is if the teacher has very few students, which might then enable one-on-one 'facilitating.' Hence, the latest magic bullet solution for what ails education - smaller class size. Never mind that Korean classrooms, which employ traditional pedagogy, average 30-40 students and outperform ours. Never mind, also that smaller class size just happens to exacerbate teacher shortages and puts upward pressure on teacher wages and other educational costs borne by taxpayers." Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: A Critical Look at Smaller Class Sizes (PDF) by Thomas Hruz, Wisconsin Interest, 1998, Vol. 7 No. 2

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