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P.T.A.

Parent Teachers Association

What is the PTA? Why join the PTA?
The number one reason to join the Parent Teacher Association is to benefit your child. In doing so, you also help your school. But there are many more PTA advantages:

• Get Connected. There’s no better way to know what’s happening in your school.
  
  
• Discover Great Resources. The PTA offers a variety of programs designed for parents as well as students.
  
  
• Tap into a Network. PTA functions are opportunities to meet other parents and teachers, building rapport and discussing issues that are on your mind. You can share ideas, concerns, and experiences. 
  
  
• Watch Yourself Grow. By volunteering with your PTA, you put your skills and hobbies to use for a noble cause—your child and all children in the community.
  
  
• Speak Up. PTA can be a way for you to more effectively suggest change at your child’s school.
  
  
• Witness Improvement. By getting involved at your child’s school you’ll be part of the solution, helping make positive changes. Local PTAs play an important role by supporting building improvements through advocacy and play an important role in fundraising for curriculum based programs and social events.
  
  
• Be a Role Model. By becoming a PTA member, you’ll be demonstrating to your child the importance you place on education.

MEMBERS:

​All of the following are automatically members of their school’s PA/PTA:

• Parents
• Step-parents
• Legally appointed guardians
• Foster parents 
• Persons in parental relation

OFFICERS:

​Officers of a PA/PTA are responsible for the PA/PTA budget, events and activities. Officers are elected by membership annually.

ELECTIONS:

​PA/PTA Elections must be held in the spring. At that time, the three mandatory officers (president, recording secretary and treasurer) are elected. This must happen before the last day of school. The election rules are specified in Chancellor's Regulation A-660.

​GRIEVANCES:

Any complaint about a PA/PTA election is known as a grievance. It must:

• Be submitted in writing (email address—or Identifying Whom). 
• Focus on a specific and material violation of either the:
  • Chancellor's Regulation A-660 
  • the PA/PTA bylaws

Verbal or anonymous grievances cannot be considered. 

MEETINGS:

​All PA/PTAs must hold at least:

• Ten monthly general membership meetings 
• Ten executive board meetings  throughout the year
• Quarterly meetings with the principal

NOTIFICATIONS:

​Members must receive a minimum of 10 calendar days’ notice before the monthly meeting. This notice must include:

• The date, time, place that the meeting will be held
• An agenda items that will be discussed

PA/PTA BYLAWS:

​PA/PTA Bylaws are a set of rules adopted by members of the association. These rules govern the day-to-day affairs of the PA/PTA. A template for these bylaws is available as both a fill-in PDF and as a Word Doc are available in the PA/PTA Resource Folder(Open external link).
All bylaws must follow Chancellor's Regulation A-660. Any and all changes to the template must also follow that regulation.

FINANCES:

​A PA/PTA is responsible for its own finances, and must obey certain rules and guidelines about banking, fundraising, and record-keeping. Any association that does fundraising must have a bank account in order to conduct transactions with vendors. Proper record keeping practices must be used by members of the executive board to give an accurate accounting of the association's finances.

PARENT LEADER TIMES:

​Parent Leader Times is a quarterly newsletter for parents in leadership roles in their school, district, or in the City. Read past issues of Parent Leader Times(Open external link).

PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL:

​Presidents’ Council is an organization of PA/PTA presidents (or designees) that represents the interests of parents within the respective district. Each community school district is required to have a Presidents' Council. Each borough is required to have a Presidents' Council for its high schools. Citywide Special Education (District 75) has a citywide Presidents' Council.

CHANCELOR'S PARENT ADVISORY COUNCIL

​CPAC is made up of Presidents' Council presidents. CPAC meets with the Chancellor and other divisions monthly so they can share information to better support their constituents and be prepared in their advisory role to the Chancellor. CPAC members are PA/PTA members, SLT members and DLT members. CPAC meetings are open to the public.