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State PTA Adopts New Legislation

The Georgia PTA Board of Directors recently adopted the following legislative priorities. These priorities are posted on the Georgia PTA website, and a brochure will be available soon.

Funding:

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, currently calculated on property tax wealth in each school system.

Support using public funds for public schools only. Oppose efforts to use public funding for private or sectarian schools.

Health and Wellness:

Encourage members to participate in their local school wellness initiatives and to assist in the development and implementation of local School Wellness Policies.

Promote and encourage healthy school fundraising.

Support passage of legislation that improves healthy lifestyles for children.

Legal Education:

Work with local school boards and school systems to infuse information about laws affecting Georgia teens into required curriculum at middle and high schools; and encourage school PTAs to develop and implement a legal education program to inform students about their rights.

Support passage of juvenile justice code revisions at the state and national level.

Please note: Mountain View Elementary School PTA neither supports nor opposes the same issues that the Georgia PTA (or East Cobb County PTA) does. However, as a member of PTA, we can not publicly contradict an official stance.

For more information, please contact JoEllen Smith, Mountain View PTA’s legislation committee chairperson, at jedlee@mindspring.com.

View Elementary Elementary

3448 Sandy Plains Road, Marietta, GA 30066

770-578-7265

www.cobbk12.org/MtView/

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