You Are the Key to Your Child’s Success
You are the school’s most important education partner—the key to your child’s success. Research shows that when families are involved at home and at…
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How Do You Put a Price on Education?
Public schools cannot continue to educate our nation’s children without adequate funding. On average, 47% of school revenue in the U.S. comes from state…
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Special Education: Why PTA Advocacy Matters
According to the dictionary, an advocate is a person who pleads for another. As parents, we are advocates every day. When you walk into…
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The Power of Positive Family Engagement
High-stakes assessments are creating quite a stressful learning environment for students and teachers in schools. Teachers just can’t do it alone, so parents have an…
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Living with Columbine: Protecting Our Kids
As the mother of a child just entering middle school in the district where the infamous Columbine High School shooting occurred, I have a…
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The Perfect Formula for Academic Achievement
Childhood obesity has become a major topic in our schools. According to the CDC, childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and quadrupled…
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Closing The Wide Homework Gap
As parents you know the routine. Your kids tell you they need to use the computer to do their homework. They need to find…
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Why I Volunteer
From the PTA Blog: Even at 40 years old, I still get scared. Driving out of town to a place I have never been…
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What Screen Time Is Better than Others?
With more and more of our lives being lived online, your kids are getting more screen time than ever—about six to nine hours a…
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Understanding What Transgender Means
Imagine you are a child assigned as a male at birth, but by age three you feel certain you are a girl. You reject…
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