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[quote=Anonymous]A few things :)

Some schools ask for an activity fee that goes to field trips and should be calculated to be about what will actually be spent. It saves administration and parents from being nickeled and dimed every time there's an activity where family funds will be requested (upper nw schools: around $100-150).  At the school my kids went to, the PTA handled the funds as a courtesy to the principal - but spending was at the discretion. They just didn't have an easy way to collect and then make payments from those funds.

This is separate from school-wide fundraising and requests 'per student' where those funds are indeed used sometimes to subsidize part-time staff positions, pay for improvements such as gardens, playground shades... (upper nw schools - $400+ per student request: clearly not all families do that!)

Former DC city council member David Grosso introduced legislation that would redistribute funds raised at each PTA across the city. it didn't go anywhere, but some day it could be resurrected.
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