California
For more than a decade, the independent Parent Faculty Assn. at Westlake Elementary School provided a forum for its members who wanted to raise money and help out at the school--an alternative to the PTA groups at most schools.
May 9, 1996
For Decades It Was Synonymous With Parental Involvement and Child Welfare. Now It Has to Fight to Prove Its Relevance.
Oct. 20, 2002
Politics: Group is angered by the use of its name in a newspaper advertisement. Mayor’s campaign manager says there was no intent to mislead.
Sept. 4, 1996
In Roth vs. El Rodeo PTA, both sides are winning.
June 21, 1990
Spurred by changing times, chapters are recruiting fathers, working mothers and immigrants, running health clinics and taking stands on touchy political issues.
June 22, 1996
Saying the Parent Teachers Assn. has failed Latino parents and their children, Latinos in Vista have formed their own version of the school group.
Sept. 24, 1990
The Boy Scouts and the PTA, two “apple pie” groups, can’t agree on who should assume liability for any “bad apple” Scout leaders.
Dec. 17, 1989
Tensions were so high among members of a San Diego County parent-teacher association in March that a sheriff’s sergeant attended a PTA meeting that month to ensure the safety of the president, who was being accused by other members of stealing from the organization, the sergeant said Wednesday.
Jan. 3, 2019
Leaders say that if it is to remain a force, the group must strengthen, diversify its membership.
June 27, 2004
Trisha Roth found that her intemperance on temperance can backfire when her colleagues in the El Rodeo School PTA voted to oust her from office last week because her crusading had become “antagonistic.”
Sept. 30, 1990