Monthly archive for April 2015

Below is a listing of all the 2015 School Board Candidates in the state of Delaware. In an attempt to keep our membership informed about the school board candidates and their position on various issues, Delaware PTA invited each candidate to participate in a voluntary Q&A.  As of today, we have received responses from the candidates highlighted below. We will continue to update this page with responses as we receive them. Remember, school board elections are MAY 12, 2015. Please check your individual school district website for voting locations and times. DISTRICT CANDIDATE  RESPONSES Appoquinimink Joanne Christian Joanne Christian Appoquinimink

Just a friendly reminder that FOCSD will meet on Monday, April 27, at 7:00 in the Downes cafeteria to discuss the upcoming referendum and ways FOCSD can help support it. In response to public input, the district has revised its list of proposed cuts in the event that the ref. FAILS ($9.5 million in cuts required) or passes ($1.8 million in cuts still necessary, due to the reduced referendum request in comparison to February’s). You can find that revised list and much additional info at www.CSDWeAllWin.org.

Hi all,  Thank you all for your support over these last few months in trying to organize this Spring DPTA 2015 Youth Summit. Even though we know that our marketing efforts were seen throughout the community and that many of our PTA units and schools buildings supported our efforts by printing off the posters themselves and hanging them in their buildings, distributing postcards this last week, and sharing the information across their networks these last 6 weeks, unfortunately this has not translated into strong registration numbers.As of today, we simply do not have enough attendees even registered to have the

Join us as we celebrate the hard work of outstanding teachers during National PTA’s Teacher Appreciation Week,May 4-8. Teacher Appreciation Week is the perfect time to personally thank your students’ teachers for making a positive impact on their education and lives. To help you plan for the week, we’ve created a Teacher Appreciation Week Promotional Toolkit with ideas and resources you can use to honor teachers: Send a Thank You Card Get ideas from our Pinterest Board Download Social Media Images Use our sample tweets We also encourage you to celebrate a former teachers and tell them what you’ve accomplished because of their influence. Use #ThankATeacher to join the conversation

  In a statement made today by Governor Markell, Delaware PTA learned that the four colleges; Wilmington University, University of Delaware, Delaware Technical and Community College and Delaware State University have all agreed that the outcomes of the 11th grade Smarter Balanced Assessments is a good indicator of college readiness. In addition, these institutions have all agreed to accept the assessment in lieu of other placement exams. At a time when there is so much turbulence in our public education system, we are disheartened to learn that the conversations that proceeded this major conclusion did not include input from any