Professional Support
- Information and personnel resource, assisting local PTAs upon request
- Training and professional development, including Fall Workshop with exhibits that feature child and parent advocacy organizations and educational sessions on current topics of interest to PTA leaders and members
- By-laws review
- Audit support; units conduct their own audit (financial review) and send report to Free State PTA
- National PTA Reflections Program support
- Help with PTA policies, procedures, and practices
- Annual General Membership meetings
- four meetings each year with focus on education, information-sharing, and networking
- each meeting consists of a business portion and a program
- four delegates from each local PTA have voting privileges, although PTAs are encouraged to send additional representatives
- delegates vote on issues and in elections
Legislation, Advocacy, and Community Interactions
- Council members represent Council on various advisory boards, commissions, interagency committees, and task forces
- Supports local PTAs when BCPS develops its operating and capital budgets for the next school year, identifying needs of individual schools and of the school system
- Monthly report to Board of Education
- Liaison to Free State PTA
- State and national convention delegations
- Train local units on effective advocacy
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