How to Use parent-teacher association in a Sentence

parent-teacher association

noun
  • When their school found out about her record, she was ostracized from the parent-teacher association..
    Brittany Wallman, Sun Sentinel, 4 Dec. 2022
  • 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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