Seminars for Families The AXA Foundation is a proud national sponsor of PTA. Seminars on paying for college and other financial issues facing families are available to PTAs at no cost. Request a session to help prepare families at your school. Seminar topics include: Planning for College Financial Planning 101 Choose Your Destination: A Financial Wellness Seminar for Women Your Family, Your Future Planning Your Great Escape: Retirement The Family Love Letter Estate Planning Strategies Scholarships for Students AXA understands how challenging the road to college can be. The AXA Foundation’s signature program, AXA AchievementSM, has awarded $24 million in scholarships
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With the TeenSafe smartphone monitoring service, parents are given a window into their children’s digital lives, with the goal of creating an open and positive dialogue between parents and their kids. TeenSafe’s monitoring software enables parents to view their children’s activity on Facebook, Instagram and other popular social media platforms. It can also track incoming and outgoing calls, deleted text messages and smartphone location. As a member benefit of National PTA, TeenSafe will: •Offer all PTA members a 33% lifetime discount on its software •Contribute $10 to each new customer’s selected local PTA Sign up now for your free trial! http://www.teensafe.com/pta/
Read more →Thanks to the hard work and dedication of our local PTA units, our membership has increased by14.8% from this same time period last year. This is reflective of the value and relevance our local PTA units bring to their schools and surrounding community. We are excited to see how our units perform with the current March Madness – Membership Incentive http://t.co/0GQ3F1PtJL Which unit will win? Will it be yours?
Read more →National PTA Praises Administration’s Commitment to the Success of Every Child in State of the Union
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Jan. 20, 2015) — The following statement can be attributed to National PTA President Otha Thornton: “This evening, President Barack Obama delivered the annual State of the Union address, calling on Congress to pass legislation that fulfills the promise of equity and opportunity for every child. National PTA applauds President Obama’s support of education and dedication to ensuring the success of all our nation’s children. “Since our founding, PTA has championed the importance of equal opportunity for every child, regardless of his or her economic status, gender, religion, prior academic achievement, disability or behavioral history. Inequalities endure in
Read more →Family Foundations Academy Charter School will remain open next year after the State Board of Education assented to Secretary of Education Mark Murphy’s decision to renew its charter today. Meanwhile, State Board members also assented to his decision to place the school’s new charter on formal review. Last month, Murphy deferred making a decision on Family Foundations’ charter renewal application due to additional information the state received fewer than 24 hours prior to the December State Board meeting. As a result of Department of Education monitoring and investigation, the state had obtained a report including serious allegations of financial mismanagement. That
Read more →Voting now is open in the Delaware Department of Education’s second annual Delaware Goes to College student logo contest. Anyone may vote through Jan. 26 by “liking” his or her favorite design on the Delaware Goes to College facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/DelawareGoesToCollege?ref=ts&fref=ts). Entries are displayed under the page’s photo albums. Students from the following schools have submitted entries: Brandywine’s Mt. Pleasant High, Cape Henlopen’s Cape Henlopen High, Capital’s Dover High, New Castle County Vo-Tech’s Delcastle High, Red Clay Consolidated’s Cab Calloway, Smyrna’s Smyrna High and Sussex Tech’s Sussex Tech High. The winning design will be announced Jan 27. The College Board then will print
Read more →Last night more than 4000 DE high school seniors received a text messages with information on college applications. The students signed up during College Application Month. The Department of Higher Education Office will be sending 2-3 texts per month, focused for now on FAFSA completion and scholarships. High school seniors and their parents are invited to sign up for the messages. Parents and students can use opt-in numbers that they can text to. Also, parents can be linked to their child’s messages, so that they are more customized or opt-in to receive general messages. Visit Delaware Goes To College for
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