Delaware State PTA - Every Child One VOice

Delaware State PTA Convention was a Success!

Each year, the Delaware PTA hosts an annual state convention for local PTA units and families to come together to access information and services that impact our schools and communities. This is an opportunity for our local PTA units and community members learn more about PTA and our advocacy efforts and activities throughout the year.

 On Saturday November 23^rd 2013, Delaware PTA hosted its 102^nd Annual State Convention and Leadership Summit at St. Georges High-School in Middletown Delaware.  Parents, community, school and youth leaders from across the state participated in a series of interactive workshops and panel discussions on a variety of educational topics that impact our students and families.  Read more: Delaware State PTA Convention was a Success!

PLEASE READ BEFORE ACTIVATING MEMBERSHIP CARDS!

The National PTA website for membership accounts is not a secure website.  Passwords and personal information can be captured if entered over unsecured, public wifi networks (i.e., Panera's, libraries, Starbucks, etc.).  When registering, PLEASE USE A PASSWORD NOT USED ELSEWHERE, and do not enter personal data such as date of birth in the Member Account Profile. 

Delaware PTA has notified National PTA of this security issue, but until we are sure it has been fixed, we recommend taking every precaution when registering and sharing personal information here.

Learn about the Common Core Standards

Does Your Business Need a Ricoh Printer?

The Delaware PTA needs your help! In June, 2010, we entered into a five-year contract with Ricoh (http://ricoh.com/) for a high-end multifunction (printer/copier/scanner/fax) machine. Because of our move to more electronic means of communication, we have recently been using only a tiny fraction of its capacity. However, in this challenging economy, the machine is consuming 25% of our net income ($4,888 annually). This has severely crippled our ability to carry out our mission of advocating for the children of Delaware. Read more: Does Your Business Need a Ricoh Printer?

PTA Store - Show Your PTA Pride!

Show Your PTA Pride!

The PTA Store offers promotional merchandise and specialty items that bear the trademarks PTA^® and PTSA^®. We have PTA brochures and an online PTA Store at www.totalpromote.com/pta (also accessible from www.pta.org).

Congratulations to This Year's Reflections Winners!

Thank you to all of the schools who participated in the Reflections program this year:  Linden Hill, North Star, McVey, Heritage, Maclary, Jennie Smith, Downes, Wilson, Olive B. Loss, HB du Pont, Shue-Medill, Newark High, and Delaware Military Academy.

The judges had a very hard time deciding the winners from all the wonderful entries about "The Magic of a Moment."   Keep a lookout for a post on the website and Facebook in the following weeks about the location of the awards ceremony to honor our winners.  All art projects will be displayed that night as well.  Projects will be available to be picked up after the awards ceremony. 

Here are our fabulous winners, with the first place winner from each category moving on to the national level.

Bylaws Alert!

Did you know? 

    Your bylaws must  reviewed, submitted and approved by Delaware PTA every 5 years.

Did you know?

    All units reviewing their bylaws must use the newest template.

Did you know?

    There are no co-officers that are accepted by National and Delaware PTA. 

Did you know?

    To be in good standing according to the bylaws, you must submit annually the officers report.

Request a CCSSI Presentation at Your School

The Delaware State PTA board would love the opportunity to help local units educate their PTA members about the Common Core Standards.  To request a presentation, just fill out THIS form and we'll be in touch with you shortly.