PTOs and PTAs Relied on for Even More

Wall Street Journal takes a look at how school budget pressures are trickling down to parent groups. Not a completely new story (we've been writing on this for a decade now, at least), but the pressure seems to be increasing with the state of the economy.

by Tim Sullivan

02/07/2016

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l Street Journal takes a look at how school budget pressures are trickling down to parent groups. Not a completely new story (we've been writing on this for a decade now, at least), but the pressure seems to be increasing with the state of the economy.

Big challenge -- no matter what you pay for -- is keeping your parent group about involvement and community.  Ironically, if you become known as the pocketbook or the fundraising machine, then even your fundraising efforts will suffer.