Parent Teachers Associations
Early Childhood
PTA Preschool Chapters Draw In New Parents
As a newcomer to Cumming, Ga., a fast-growing community north of Atlanta, Nancy Carlson had a home in one of the town's pristine new subdivisions--a perfect place to raise her two preschool-age boys.
Education
Early PTA Meeting Guidelines
The following questions were suggested by the National Congress of Mothers in 1912 as part of a guide to leading local parent-teacher circle meetings. The group, today called the National PTA, suggested beginning with hourlong sessions on Friday afternoons and easing into weighty issues.
Reform Issues, 1912
The following questions were suggested by the National Congress of Mothers in 1912 as part of a guide to leading local parent-teacher circle meetings. The group, today called the National PTA, suggested beginning with hourlong sessions on Friday afternoons and easing into weighty issues.
Education
PTA Principles on Corporate Support Fail To Win Over Other Organizations
The National PTA has adopted a set of guidelines for corporate involvement in education, but only after largely failing in its drive to forge a broad alliance against alleged commercialization of the schools.
Education
National PTA Exhorts Candidates To Address Range of Child Issues
Washington--Joining other advocacy groups seeking to focus attention on children in this year's Presidential campaign, the National pta has called for a "children's summit" to address issues ranging from child care to child abuse.
The group proposes the idea in a "Memorandum to the 41st President of the United States" presented at its legislative conference here last week.
Education
E.D. Officials Argue for Tax Credits, Vouchers Before Gathering of Skeptical P.T.A. Members
Undersecretary of Education Gary L. Jones faced a difficult challenge last week.
Education
National PTA Joins Campaign To Fight Cuts
Opposing the policies of an incumbent President for the first time in its 85-year history, the National Congress of Parents and Teachers (National pta) last week joined the effort of other education groups to fight against the Reagan Administration's fiscal 1983 education budget.