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Join PTA Chief Executive Officer, Byron V. Garrett, in a powerful initiative to transform education by engaging all families in the journey towards success for every child. Embrace the philosophy that committed citizens can change the world. Let's work together to ensure no child is left behind, and every child receives the education they deserve. Are you ready to be part of this monumental change?
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PTA’s Great Transformation Byron V. Garrett Chief Executive Officer National PTA
“Never doubt that a group of committed citizens can change the world, indeed it's the only thing that ever has!” - Margaret Mead
In the words of young people today, we’re often imitated, but never duplicated. Because of this great transformation, we must engage in ways we’ve never done before.
Standard One: Welcoming ALL Families
Just because they don’t know our history doesn’t mean they’re not able to help write the next chapter of it.
What matters most is one’s commitment to success for all children.
It’s criminal to condemn an child to a life that goes from cradle to prison because we lose sight of what really matters.
A Diploma I Can’t Read "I feel like I was cheated of my education.” -- Wayne Knowland, 2010
5 The number of teens who will drop out in the next two minutes. 1,710 Number of high school dropout during all four General Meetings
America Cannot Survive Half-Educated
“Whatever your life’s work is…you should do your job so well, the living – the dead and the unborn could do it no better” - Martin Luther King