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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think our PTA is once per month on zoom in the evening. [b]PTOs and PTAs operate a bit differently[/b]. [/quote]

Wrong. Please don’t type things you don’t know about.

Our school has a PTO because we don’t want to pay dues to the national PTA. We meet. The second Wednesday of the month at school at arrival time. [/quote]
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They do operate differently. You just said PTOs don’t have to pay dues to the national org. That’s a different operating procedure thank PTAs. 
PTOs don’t have a governing body and can do whatever they want. PTAs are held to strict bylaws.

-Not the PP you quoted, btw. [/quote]

PTO's have their own bylaws that are generally similar. PTA's have to follow the Umbrella PTA bylaws and their own and pay dues.  PTA non profit status goes under the state so they all use the same tax id.  A PTO is a separate non-profit.[/quote]

The biggest difference IMO (as a parent with kids who have a large age gap and attended two different elementary schools) is that PTAs are required to share out information while PTOs can make up their own rules. As working parents, we much preferred the PTA to the PTO b/c we knew where our money was going and there were monthly meetings. The PTA also had access to resources from the National PTA, so they had parent-focused events with speakers on mental health, special education, etc.. The PTO school had one "open" meeting a year that was pretty useless and from what I could tell, they spent their money on assemblies and monthly teacher-focused events (like "this month we're doing a candy bar, next month, we're doing an ice cream bar, etc...). They had one family-oriented after school event to prove that they valued diversity (of course the one event was international night at a school that had a small minority population and of course dumped all the work on them).[/quote]

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