PTA History: Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youth
Throughout PTA’s history, we have advocated to prevent the use and access of tobacco products to minors. Preventing tobacco use among youth is important…
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Parent Talk: How I Helped Start Our PTSA’s DEI Committee
Last year, my family moved from the east coast back to California. As if moving across country wasn’t complicated enough, the added challenge of…
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How We PTA: Meeting the Critical Needs of Families and Communities
Schools provide so much more than education: good nutrition, childcare, access to technology, mental health services and more. This is what makes them central…
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Focus on Eyesight to Improve Learning This Year
The beginning of a new school year is often marked with new supplies, clothes and routines—and all the things your child needs to have a great school year. If…
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Ask a PTA Leader: Anna King, National PTA President
If you ask new National PTA President, Anna King, about why she is so passionate about our mission work, you will get a firm,…
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“Testing” Has a Whole New Meaning This Fall
As students across the country prepare to return to in-person learning this fall, schools are closely watching federal, state and local health guidelines—and listening to parents…
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Ask a PTA Leader: Leslie Boggs, National PTA President
National PTA’s new president, Leslie Boggs, has a welcoming smile, a firm handshake and often quietly listens before she speaks. But when she does…
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Ask a PTA Leader: Collin Robinson
Collin Robinson is the proud soccer dad of Coral, and Asher, and has been an active PTA parent leader at his children’s school and…
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How to Prepare Your Kids for the Jobs of the Future
Today, hundreds of thousands of cyber security positions remain vacant around the world. Research estimates that by 2022, there will be a shortage of…
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The Invisible Population: Supporting Foster Families
Foster families are an “invisible population.” If one hundred children were on a school playground, you couldn’t—or shouldn’t—be able to tell which ones were…
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