How to Use parent-teacher association in a Sentence

parent-teacher association

noun

• The local parent-teacher association said in a statement that the group supports teachers and safety.
  — Darcy Costello, The Courier-Journal, 12 Apr. 2018
• Contreras said her prize at the end was a pumpkin, and a decorating kit provided by the parent-teacher association of Franklin Park School District 84.
  — Anna Kim, chicagotribune.com, 20 Oct. 2020
• Tabitha Persaud, mom of three Aikahi students, remembers Fraser coming to the parent-teacher association with the idea of approaching big names.
  — Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Star Tribune, 12 Oct. 2020
• Relying in part on school funding and in part on money raised by the parent-teacher association, Douds purchased two pop-up tents to supplement the permanent ones, to be erected in case of bad weather.
  — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2021
• Lunch Bunch groups meet online, the back-to-school nights have been held virtually, with videos taking the viewers on tours of the school, and parent-teacher association meetings are being held in school parking lots, with everyone wearing masks.
  — Tracy Trobridge, baltimoresun.com, 9 Oct. 2020
• In Utah, leaders of the statewide parent-teacher association are embracing a social-media campaign called #WhatsYour17.
  — Leslie Brody, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2018
• Local parent-teacher associations also are putting together food boxes for kids who rely on free breakfast and lunch at school.
  — Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2018
• The school has also become a magnet for families across the city looking for a diverse gifted school, and the parent-teacher association encourages local East Harlem parents to apply.
  — New York Times, 10 Oct. 2019
• Meghan Stark, the secretary of the Condon’s parent-teacher association, said Monday that the school needs more consistent security.
  — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• Lyric Winik, the school’s parent-teacher association president, said that when the lockdown went into place in September, her phone was filled with texts from other parents trying to understand what was happening.
  — Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2022
• The families that welcomed his own — one of the first Black families in the Keystone-Monon neighborhood on the city's north side — were part of a community that participated in block parties and parent-teacher association meetings.
  — Amelia Pak-Harvey, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Dec. 2021
• She and her husband were involved in parent leadership activities and were each past presidents of the parent-teacher association.
  — Krista Torralva, ExpressNews.com, 24 Apr. 2020
• The officer also stepped down from his role as chairperson of a school's parent-teacher association after he was identified online, amid calls for his resignation, according to a statement from the school.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 23 Nov. 2019
• In Accra, Ghana, for example, a traders’ association has joined with a parent-teacher association to run a childcare center at Makola Market.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 11 Sep. 2019
• The coalition, which includes the local parent-teacher association and the Jefferson County teachers union, has amassed thousands of signatures on an online petition opposing the takeover.
  — Darcy Costello, The Courier-Journal, 6 June 2018
• The parent-teacher association at Westchester Elementary School in Catonsville led a project which had local elementary and middle school artists painting positive messages on bathrooms at the school.
  — Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 10 Aug. 2022
• In fact, studies show that participation in group activities is down in general, in everything from book clubs, to parent-teacher associations, to churches, to country clubs.
  — John Carlisle, Freep.com, 29 Nov. 2019
• The purifiers -- provided by the school's parent-teacher association -- and portable microphone systems, provided by the district to compensate for the voice-muffling masks, are the latest in classroom furnishings.
  — Cynthia Howell, Arkansas Online, 1 June 2021
• Many schools have parent liaisons or parent-teacher associations that can provide helpful information.
  — Amy Joyce, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2020
• At a different school, employees used a charge card to order an $850 Keurig coffee machine, auditors said — including international shipping — with money raised by a parent-teacher association.
  — Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Apr. 2018
• Teams of city staff members, social scientists and transportation consultants are working with school principals and parent-teacher associations to educate parents about the program and recruit participants, the city stated in an announcement.
  — Deborah Sullivan Brennan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2019
• Her organization has been beset with requests to address immigrant parents in congregations or at parent-teacher associations, and is for the first time distributing an emergency packet, complete with a power of attorney form.
  — Henry Grabar, Slate Magazine, 9 Mar. 2017
• Nofcier requested them through the local parent-teacher association.
  — Eliza McGraw, Smithsonian, 21 June 2017
• For example, an experimental study by Stanford Professor Shelley Correll suggested that participants gave lower ratings – and offered less pay – to female applicants who listed their membership in the parent-teacher association on their resume.
  — Elizabeth C. Tippett, The Conversation, 1 May 2020
• Despite increasing levels of education, recent generations have seen stagnating participation in everything from politics to organized religion to union membership to parent-teacher associations.
  — Alain Sylvain, Quartz, 10 Mar. 2020

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