njmom;132783 wrote: Our district has had a PTA/PTO council for many years. The parent groups from each of our schools (over 15) pay dues and meet monthly. .
Our district is actually going to start with PTO summits next year. We will meet quarterly to share ideas and the like. We will remain autonomous but hope to perhaps pool efforts in fundraising simply to get better deals from vendors. There are no dues etc to be involved.
Our district has had a PTA/PTO council for many years. The parent groups from each of our schools (over 15) pay dues and meet monthly. PTA/PTO Presidents, School Principals, the Superintendent and and BOE member (hopefully) attend the meetings.
Although each school is independent financially, the council is a good way to share best practices, ideas for family events and assemblies as well as giving each other feedback on successful and unsuccessful fundraisers.
Our district's finance officer wanted our PTO's to do the same. We would have one Tax ID and all filing would be under that one ID. Each school would file their balance sheets with him annually to file the taxes. It would be created similar to how a major corporation sets up their subdivisions.
It would be easier for the PTO treasurer since they wouldn't have to file the state or federal forms anymore, you still have a tax ID to use & tax exempt status as well.
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Our school district has 1 Early Learning Center (Pre-K and K), 5 grade schools, 2 middle and 2 high schools. Many of the schools have different partent organizations already. Part of the problem as I see it is you have many layers of duplication. Was reviewing the option of putting in place a district wide PTO. Was looking for input from people that have done this. I know there could be many different ways to set this up, so ideas on that would help as well.
