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Report: Billions Needed To Fix America's Crumbling Schools

AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 05.12.2013 | Politics
Read More: School Maintenance, Bill Clinton, Council of Educational Facility Planners International, American Lung Association, American Federation of Teachers, National PTA, National Education Association, U.S. Green Building Council, Video, Education, Center for Green Schools, Education Department, Rachel Gutter, Barbara Worth, 21st Century School Fund, Dennis Van Roekel, Government Accountability Office, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- America's schools are in such disrepair that it would cost more than $270 billion just to get elementary and secondary buildings back to...

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Securing a Brighter Future for Our Nation's Most Precious Resource

Melissa Kicklighter | Posted 10.15.2012 | Home
Read More: Parent-Teacher-Student-Associations, Parent Teacher Association, Florida Schools, PTA Work, PTA Volunteer, National PTA, Florida PTA, Pta, Home News
Melissa Kicklighter

As a school-based PTA leader, my focus was on caring for the students and faculty of our school by building a strong membership and community business partnerships and offering quality programs and services.

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The Key to our Children's Success

Janelle Sperry | Posted 10.14.2012 | Home
Read More: National PTA, Parent Teacher Association, National Parent Teacher Association, Pta-Involvement, West Virginia Schools, Pta, Home News
Janelle Sperry

Now that I'm a mom of a 10-year-old girl, I realize how important it is to be involved in our children's education from the moment they step into kindergarten.

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Assigning Homework With One Voice: Why The National PTA Should Adopt National Homework Guidelines

Vicki Abeles | Posted 08.04.2012 | Parents
Read More: Pta, Homework, National HOmework Guidelines, National PTA, Homework Guidelines, No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, Parents News
Vicki Abeles

With a national policy framework, schools can more consistently and effectively deliver homework practices that keep student health, learning and engagement at the center of the conversation.

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Tennessee Bill Asks Parents To Grade Themselves On Report Cards

AP | LUCAS L. JOHNSON II | Posted 05.10.2012 | Home
Read More: Parent Teacher Association, Tennessee Schools, Parents in Schools, Arne Duncan, Parent Report Cards, Tennessee Parent Report Cards, National PTA, Bill Haslam, Becker Elementary School, Pta, Report Cards, Video, Home News

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Educators exasperated by the need for greater parent involvement have persuaded Tennessee lawmakers to sign off on a novel bit of ...

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National PTA Losing Favor Among Parents

AP | DAVID CRARY | Posted 04.07.2012 | Parents
Read More: Otha Thornton, National PTA, Parent Teacher Association, Volunteer Association for Parents, Education Reform, Betsy Landers, Pta, Parents News

-- When Otha Thornton, president-elect of the National PTA, signed up to help lead the PTA at Maryland's Meade Senior High School in 2005, the chapte...

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School Parent Group Supporting Gay Students Never Got Approval, Official Says

AP | By FRANK ELTMAN | Posted 01.02.2012 | Home
Read More: Parent Teacher Association, National PTA, Long Island Gay Parent Teacher Association, Gay Pta, New York Pta, Pta, Gay Student Advocacy, Gay Students, Parents, Home News

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. -- A New York group calling itself the first Parent-Teacher Association unit in the country dedicated to the needs of gay and lesbia...

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Peaceful Revolution: Current School Food Standards Don't Make Sense

Margo G. Wootan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Cafeteria Nutrition, American Academy of Pediatrics, Healthy Food, Congress, School Nutrition Standards, National PTA, Vending Machines in Schools, School Lunches, Parenting, Child Nutrition Promotion and School Lunch Protection Act, Parenting and Food, Childhood Obesity, United States Department of Agriculture, Junk Food, Junk Food Ban, American Medical Association, Usda, National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity, Politics News
Margo G. Wootan

Over the last two decades, rates of obesity have tripled in children and adolescents, and that increase has been linked to soda intake and the sale of junk food in schools.

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