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Tennessee Bill Asks Parents To Grade Themselves On Report Cards

AP | LUCAS L. JOHNSON II | Posted 05.10.2012

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, Education 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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First PTA Group For Gay Students Approved In New York

AP | FRANK ELTMAN | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Lgbt, Parent Teacher Association, Long Island, Pta, Gay Rights, Garden City, Ny News, Gay Students, New York News

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — Rachael Scheinman hears anti-gay slurs all the time. The senior at the Portledge School in Locust Valley, N.Y., says many o...

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National PTA Losing Favor Among Parents

AP | DAVID CRARY | Posted 04.07.2012

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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Oil Boom Wreaks Havoc On North Dakota Towns

AP | DALE WETZEL | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Census, North Dakota, Video, Oil Boom, Opec, Sen. Rich Wardner, Pta, Oil Revenues, Oil-Producing, Oil Companies, Ap, North Dakota State University, Business News

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — In the last two years, Williston school superintendent Viola LaFontaine has had to manage an influx of 480 new students brough...

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The Mean Girls Of The PTA

Allena Tapia | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Mean Girls, Bullying Parents, Pta, Queen Bees, Cliquish Parents, Parents News
Allena Tapia

Last night I sat in a large PTO meeting. I giggled through agenda items with a table full of my friends from the old group, compared notes in stage whispers, and texted friends across the room.

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

AP | By FRANK ELTMAN | Posted 01.02.2012

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, Education 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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Too Little Too Late?

Marjorie Gilberg | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Sex Ed, Relationships, South East High, Lausd, Safe Schools, The California Partnership to End Domestic Violence, South Gate, Abraham Lopez, Policy, Cindi Santana, Los Angeles, California, Dating Abuse, Politics, Dating Violence, Teen Dating, Education, Domestic Violence, Break the Cycle, Pta, Los Angeles News
Marjorie Gilberg

Cindi Santana and her family did everything right to ensure her safety and the system failed them. Responding to dating abuse requires parents, schools, community leaders, law enforcement and elected officials to work together.

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A Morality Litmus Test for Your Broker

Dan Solin | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Investing, JP Morgan, Ponzi Scheme, Pta, Sec, Disney, Investors, Risk, Business News
Dan Solin

Schemes share a common theme: The promise of high returns without commensurate risk. But even if you are too smart to fall for this kind of scam, your investments may still be in danger.

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Former PTA Official Ordered To Return $82,000 She Stole For Fertility Treatments

Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: New York City Schools, Public Schools, Pta-Fundraising, Pta Funds, School PTA, Cobble Hill, Pta, Brooklyn Schools, PS 29, Education News

Providence Hogan, accused of embezzling $82,000 from her child's Cobble Hill school PTA, has agreed to repay the amount, plus interest, to avoid jail ...

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UPDATE: Ponzi Scheme Moms Promised 100% Return, Made Millions

AP | By CHRISTINA HOAG | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Eva Perez, Ponzi Scheme, Diamond Bar News, Pta, Juliana Menefee, Maricela Barajas, Los Angeles News

LOS ANGELES -- Three former PTA mothers used their connection with a suburban elementary school to recruit investors in a phony $14 million get-rich-q...

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PTA Moms Arrested For Ponzi Scheme And Grand Theft

Diamond Bar, CA Patch | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: Ponzi Scheme, Eva Perez, Pta, Diamond Bar News, Pta Ponzi Scheme, Juliana Menefee, Disneyland Ponzi Scheme, Mariciela Torres, Mariciela Barajas, Los Angeles News

Three Diamond Bar PTA moms at Armstrong Elementary School allegedly duped around 40 investors in a Ponzi scheme that lost victims up to $4 million. ...

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Community Plus Commerce

Ellen Snortland | Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: Now That She's Gone, Indiegogo, Crowdfunding, Groupon, Social Commerce, Homerun, IMPACT Personal Safety, Sellaband, KickStarter.Com, Living Social, Pta, Kgbdeals, Townloop, Impact News
Ellen Snortland

"Green" thinking is now a part of our collective consciousness, and the new Internet phenomenon of " social commerce " is in full flower.

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Even Affluent School Districts Face Teacher Cuts

nytimes.com | LOUIS UCHITELLE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: State Budgets, Education, Pta, Budget Cuts, School Budgets, Teacher Cuts, Business News

Across the country, elected officials in privileged communities are caught between a fervor to hold down taxes and a fervor to maintain good schools, ...

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Moms Burn Out Trying To Keep Up With School Volunteer Demands

nytimes.com | HILARY STOUT | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: School Volunteer, Pta, Education News

It was last spring, somewhere between overseeing Teacher Appreciation Week and planning the fifth-grade graduation party, when Jamie Lentzner, mother ...

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The Education of Student Success: Top 10 Family Responsibilities to Help Their Student Avoid Failure

Heather Wolpert-Gawron | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Education, Student Achievement, K12, Pta, Parent Involvement, Education News
Heather Wolpert-Gawron

Younger families coming up through the system can't cut-and-run from our public schools in their indecision of how to educate their own children. The problems that plague some of our schools belong to us all.

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'National Safe Schools Week' Puts The Spotlight On School Violence

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: School Violence, School Bullying, Bullying, Cyberbullying, Safe Schools, National Safe Schools Week, Pta, School Safety, Investigation Discovery, Education News

According to national data, almost 8 percent of students reported being "threatened or injured with a weapon" on school grounds in 2009. Findings fro...

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Rhee and Klein's 'Manifesto' -- the Usual Nonsense

Ilana Garon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Davis Guggenheim, High School, Parent Teacher Conference, Charter Schools, Pta, Parent Involvement, Waiting for Superman, Education News
Ilana Garon

It is an ongoing frustration to teachers, counselors, and administrators alike that the parents we really need to speak to can never be tracked down

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You Don't Have to Deny the Arts To Succeed: MS223 in The South Bronx, a 2010 Intel School of Distinction

Richard Kessler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Certified Arts Teacher, Nea, Nga, Arts Specialist, Center for Arts Education, Theater, Special Ed, Testing, Arts Education, Teachers, Arts Ed, Advocacy, Curriculum, Aft, Dance, Grantmakers in the Arts, Parent Engagement, K-12, Nycdoe, Principals, Randi Weingarten, Teaching Artist, Education, Art, Arts Education Policy, Joel Klein, Artsjournal.com, Usdoe, National Endowment for the Arts, Arne Duncan, Ell, Music, Race to the Top, Michael Mulgrew, School Reform, Kill and Drill, Elliott Eisner, Annenberg Foundation, Narrowing of the Curriculum, Diane Ravitch, Bill Gates, Visual Art, Stem, Common Core, Rocco Landesman, Drama, Arts, Creative Sector, Arts Integration, Pta, Esea, Common Core Standards, Arts News
Richard Kessler

Ramon Gonzalez and his faculty at MS223 have managed to take time from test prep for reading and math to build in exchange for a quality arts program,...

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Stepping Down From the PTA

Delia Lloyd | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Why Join a PTA, Parent Teacher Association, Education, PTA School, PTA Fundraising, School PTA, Parenting, Pta, Healthy Living News
Delia Lloyd

I no longer have the energy to put into the PTA. Or, better stated, I have that energy but it's not energy that I wish to devote to the PTA anymore.

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A Letter to Rookie Teachers

Dennis Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Schools, LA Times, Teacher Evaluations, New Teachers, Pta, Lausd, Los Angeles News
Dennis Danziger

As the new school year is about to begin, I believe it is vital that new teachers be educated as to the kind of parents whose spawn they will be meeting and working with come September.

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Kathy Ireland: Green Times Three

Jennifer Schwab | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sports Illustrated, Kathy Ireland, Sustainability, City of Hope, Feed the Children, Pta, Green News
Jennifer Schwab

With more than 15,000 products including furniture, clothing, linens, candles and more, Kathy Ireland's company is one of the few highly-profitable sustainable companies in America.

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Astoria Characters: The Self-Made CEO

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Glen Cove, Astoria, Divorce, Brooklyn, Gimbel's, Mortgage, Long Island University, c.w. Post, Greek Orthodox Church of the Resurrection in Brookville, Lyons, Nancy Ruhilng, Edith O'Donnell, Insurnace, Bay Ridge, New York University, Pta, New York News, Jean Stapleton, Supbrime, Rosedale, Soccer, Olympique Lyonnais, Sunday School Teacher, New York News
Nancy Ruhling

It came about, when Edith O'Donnell was in her late 40s, that she found herself without a husband and without a job. And with two daughters to put through college.

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What a "Map of Play" Looks Like and Why We Need It

Darell Hammond | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michelle Obama First Lady, Michelle Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Play, Playground, Map, Community, Pta, Google Maps, Neighborhood, State of Play, Impact News
Darell Hammond

Although there are many things that people have taken the time to chart geographically, one thing you won't find is a comprehensive map of play areas in your community. It's time to change that.

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Jamba Juices Up PTA With New Fundraising Program

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Healthy Lifestyles, Pta, Fundraising, Jamba Juice, Impact News

National smoothie chain Jamba Juice has launched a fundraising campaign to benefit school PTAs, the Orange County Register reported. School PTAs who ...

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Jack Straw Denies Claims That Lockerbie Bomber Megrahi Was Released For Libyan Oil

The Guardian | Michael White and Severin Carrell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Megrahi, Bp, Libya Oil, Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi, Jack Straw, Scotland, British Petroleum, UK-Libya Prisoner Transfer Agreement, Gadhafi, Lockerbie Bomber, Lockerbie Bomber Released, Labour, Moammar Gadhafi, Libya, Lockerbie, Pta, World News

The justice secretary, Jack Straw, today denied fresh allegations that he gave the Scottish government the green light to release Abdelbaset al-Megrah...

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