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Successful Family-School PartnershipsPTA’s process for building successful partnerships starts with the National Standards for Family-School Partnerships and consists of three steps:
PTA’s National Standards for Family-School Partnerships
Standard 1: Welcoming All Families into the School Community
Families are active participants in the life of the school, and feel welcomed, valued, and connected to each other, to school staff, and to what students are learning and doing in class.
Standard 2: Communicating Effectively
Families and school staff engage in regular, two-way, meaningful communication about student learning.
Standard 3: Supporting Student Success
Families and school staff engage in regular, two-way, meaningful communication about student learning.
Standard 4: Speaking Up for Every Child
Families are empowered to be advocates for their own and other children, to ensure that students are treated fairly and have access to learning opportunities that will support their success.
Standard 5: Sharing Power
Families and school staff are equal partners in decisions that affect children and families and together inform, influence, and create policies, practices, and programs.
Standard 6: Collaborating with Community
Families and school staff collaborate with community members to connect students, families, and staff to expanded learning opportunities, community services, and civic participation.
For more information about the National Standards and PTA programs that promote family-school partnerships, visit National PTA.
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Fundraising:As PTAs work to move their mission forward and serve the children in our schools, they often find that dues are not sufficient to achieve their mission to make every child’s potential a reality.
Fundraising is a necessary component to provide the means, yet it can be challenging.
Begin each year with specific, mission-driven goals in mind.
Identify strategies for reaching those goals before determining the dollar amount needed from fundraising events. They should raise only the funds necessary to meet the needs of the year’s activities and projects, as outlined in the PTA’s budget. In keeping with our mission, National PTA encourages local PTAs to utilize fundraisers in which only adults, not children, are active as fundraisers.
Know the laws.
Your PTA must follow federal and state laws to maintain your tax-exempt status with the IRS. Review the legal implications of fundraising. For example, your PTA should not provide financial assistance to an individual or family in the case of a catastrophic event, such as a fire or other disaster. While these efforts are well-intentioned, it could result in losing your PTA’s tax-exempt status.
Transparency is key.
The ways in which funds are raised and spent should be communicated clearly to members and the school community as a whole regularly and in multiple ways.
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