Originally posted by Cherilyn: The last thing I have from PTA was from 2000. We have asked for the newer items, but I guess she did away with them. So we have yet to get any bylaws, handbooks, we have NO one to talk to in our county and have never once gotten any info about legal services. The only thing we have gotten from PTA this year is our cards and the welcome back to school box/pack. So if we ARE paying for handbooks, bylaws etc. and other schools have gotten them, then my question would be why was our school left out? These items would help us a great deal.
Contact your local, then district, then National plus the PTA website has a TON of free PDF downloads, kits, resource material available. Every unit should get what they pay for, unfortunately sometimes it takes a little effort (that runs backwards) from our end to get our materials.
I agree with most of the PTA agenda and vision but like all Large organizations (their are problems- especially PTA getting info out in timely manner- it also hapeens in our school district, constantly)
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Originally posted by <kimpta>:
Also I would LOVE to see the PTA /PTO with 500 members accounting for the $1000.00 in dues! Each PTA decides what to charge above and beyond the $1.75 required.
Not really true, Kim. Every PTA has national mandated dues ($1.75 per member) and state-mandated dues (not sure what it is in MA, but nationally the avergae is about $2). Many PTAs also have county/council-mandated dues (often $0.025 or $0.50 per member. In my experience, the average PTA sends about $4 per member "out" in dues. The local dues -- totally decided by the local unit -- comes after that $4. There are no PTAs spending just $1.75 per member.
As for the PTA training...we in MA do have free training. For instance our group had a problem getting parents involved and the State PTA came out and didn a free workshop for out PTA Building Successful Partnerships...it was great...we also got a coupkle of neighboring towns together and State reps came out and did a Leadership Training FREE.
Also I would LOVE to see the PTA /PTO with 500 members accounting for the $1000.00 in dues! Each PTA decides what to charge above and beyond the $1.75 required.
Kwade, I think you meant that the $500 was to file for non-profit status for your group not for a tax id(that shouldn't have cost anything). Our group had become a PTO years ago and they were operating under the school's non-profit status. A new school district business manager came in and told us we couldn't do that so we had to put together all the paperwork to file for our 501(c)3 recognition with the IRS. Lots of work but once it's done it's easy going from there.
I guess that's one advantage of being a PTA. Since they are a national organization, your individual group doesn't have to go through all the non-profit applications.
