2012 Georgia PTA Legislative Priorities
Support Student Achievement:
Support Family
Engagement:
Support Adequate Funding for
Education:
Support Local Control/Local
Decision Making:
Support Health and
Safety:
Be an advocate for every child!
- Support multiple criteria be used to determine promotion and retention and not rely on the results of a single test
- Support efforts to increase the graduation rate in Georgia
- Support efforts to increase the age a student can drop out of school
- Support a full-time school nurse in every school and other health initiatives because healthy
children learn better
Support Family
Engagement:
- Support multiple opportunities for parent/caregiver involvement in decisions regarding school policies and curriculum
Support Adequate Funding for
Education:
- Support public K-12 schools with adequate state funding, reflective of the actual costs of providing the state-defined services
- Support equitable distribution of state funding to K-12 schools
- Support public funding for K-12 education in public schools exclusively
- Oppose any efforts to use public funds for private schools
Support Local Control/Local
Decision Making:
- Support local property tax and education SPLOST tax revenue be under the control of the local Board of Education
- Support the right of local Boards of Education to manage and control local public schools
Support Health and
Safety:
- Support efforts to reduce bullying
- Support efforts to reduce childhood obesity
Be an advocate for every child!