UPDATES

2022 Updates

ADVOCACY

Resolutions

  • Education Funding Crisis Moved to Historical File
  • Educational Testing and Test Scores Deemed Relevant
  • Educationally Handicapped Children Moved to Historical File
  • Credentialing Requirement: Parent/Family Involvement Component Deemed Relevant
  • Post Proposition 13 Funding of Public Education Deemed Relevant
  • Self-Esteem and Personal and Social Responsibility Awareness Deemed Relevant
  • NEW: Plant Based Food Options at School Meals

Position Statements

  • Family Planning Deemed Relevant with Minor Editorial Correction
  • Family Engagement in Credentialing Programs Deemed Relevant
  • Arts in Education Deemed Relevant
  • Basic Education Deemed Relevant
  • Education: The Early Years, Ages Three to Six Deemed Relevant with Amendments
  • Freedom to Learn Deemed Relevant
  • Accountability Systems: Statewide, Federal and Local Deemed Relevant
  • Assessment and Testing Deemed Relevant
  • Comprehensive Community Schools with Integrated Services Deemed Relevant with Amendments
  • Education: The High School Years Ages 14-18 Deemed Relevant with Amendments
  • Family Responsibility and Accountability Deemed Relevant with Amendments
  • NEW: COVID-19

Legislation Platform and Planks

  • New and Revised Legislation Planks as Adopted by the Annual Convention Delegates April 2022

 2021 Updates

ADVOCACY

Resolutions

New

  • Teaching Hard History: American Slavery in K-12 Education

Position Statements

New

  • Distance Learning
  • Grief-Sensitive Schools: Building Healthy Coping Skills

Position Statements

Revised

  • Vaccinations
  • Minor Consent for Health Care
  • Missing and Exploited Children
  • Safe School Environment
  • Status Offenders
  • Student Participation in Public Demonstrations
  • Credentialed School Personnel
  • Charter Schools
  • Education: Higher Education
  • School-to-Career Technical Education
  • Environmental Health and Environmental Education

Various additional resolutions and position statements were reviewed and deemed relevant.

FINANCE

  • Amended Audit Report form
  • Amended Fiduciary Agreement form
  • Amended «Request for Advance» section

FORMS

  • Updated PTA Unit/Council Spotlight Award Form

KNOW THE PTA

  • Updated California State PTA Bylaws

2020 Updates

ADVOCACY

  • Revised «Election Campaigns» Section
  • Revised Legislation Platform
  • Revised Position Statements
  • Revised List of Resolutions
  • Revised Resolutions Book
  • New Position Statement «Voting»
  • Revised Resolutions section

FINANCE

  • Revised Audit Report
  • Revised Audit Checklist
  • Revised «Gross Receipts» Section
  • Multiple Revisions from «Signs of Good Financial Procedures» through «Standards for PTA Fundraising»
  • Multiple Revisions from «Selecting Appropriate Fundraising Activities» through «Glossary»

FORMS

  • Revised Conflict/Whistleblower Form Annual Questionnaire
  • Revised Audit Report

PROGRAMS

  • Revised Due Dates for Program Grants and Continuing Education Scholarships
  • Eliminated School Nurses Continuing Education Scholarship
  • Revised School Staff Continuing Education Scholarship
  • New Application Forms for All Continuing Education Scholarships, Program Grants and Graduating High School Senior Scholarships
  • Revised School Smarts section
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