Welcome to the Kansas PTA website. We hope
that you find valuable resources and information that will
benefit you as a member of the PTA and as a parent of a school
aged child.
We are looking
forward to seeing all of you at the Wichita Airport Hilton the
weekend of April 20th 2012, for our next Kansas State PTA
Convention! We have an exciting weekend planned with awesome
learning opportunities in our workshops, numerous vendor to
assist you in fundraising, great speakers to help inspire you in
your upcoming PTA year, and wonderful fellowship with PTA
members from around the state. Look for your invitation in the
Call to Convention coming soon.
Reflections 2011-2012
- Diversity Means
Click here
for deadlines, applications and additional information on the
Reflections Program and 2013-2014 Reflections Theme Search.
On Wednesday, December 14, 2011,
Governor Sam Brownback released long-awaited details on his
administration’s school finance proposal. At this time, Kansas
PTA will neither endorse nor oppose the plan. We encourage all
PTA members to review the proposed plan and become familiar with
the information and what it will mean for students and education
in Kansas. Kansas PTA will provide further information as it
becomes available.
Check It Out!
Kansas PTA has a new look for
the Legislative information available to all out members.
Click here
to see what we have for you!
MYTH
BUSTERS series
The Kansas PTA is
proud to announce our first issue of the new MYTH BUSTERS series
has gone to press. The series is designed to address common
misperceptions or misleading information regarding educational
policies that affect our youth and our public schools. Our
intent is get reader friendly and accurate information into the
hands of PTA members. With the ongoing cuts in state funding and
the quality of our children’s education at risk, the debate over
how to find ways solve the state K-12 funding shortfall cannot
afford to be complicated with misinformation.
As
the largest volunteer child advocacy association in the nation,
Parent Teacher Association (PTA) reminds our country of its
obligations to children and provides parents and families with a
powerful voice to speak on behalf of every child while providing
the best tools for parents to help their children be successful
students.
PTA was created to meet
a profound challenge: to better the lives of children. And
today, it continues to flourish because PTA has never lost sight
of its goal: to change the lives of children across our great
nation for the better.
PTA does not act alone.
Working in cooperation with many national education, health,
safety, and child advocacy groups and federal agencies, the
national PTA organization collaborates on projects that benefit
children and that bring valuable resources to its members.
Kansas PTA was founded
in 1914 and has been working since that date for a quality
education and the health, safety and well being of each and
every child in Kansas. We encourage dads, grandparents, aunts,
uncles, and community members to join us in our work for all
children. Our current issues are to support the Common Core
Standards Initiative, programs including - Million Hours of
Power, Three for Me, MORE, Healthy Lifestyles, Family Engagement
in Education and incorporating the PTA National Standards into
Kansas education. We invite you to become a member of Kansas PTA
and to become a part of our advocacy efforts for each and every
child!
