Lake Washington PTSA Council 2.8
Serving the 44 PTAs & PTSAs Within the Lake Washington School District
December 2023 This month in our “Spotlight” feature, Council Area VP Manda Mangrai collected some highlights on how our local PTAs are helping to support families in their school communities who could use some extra help during the holiday season. Continue reading Spotlight: Holiday Giving in Our Local PTAs
LWPTSA Council is proud to share this exciting news: Washington State PTA’s five advancing student-submitted ideas for the 2025-26 Reflections theme that are moving on to National PTA consideration include four students from our district’s PTSAs! Here are all five: Congratulations to Continue reading State-Level Finalists of Reflections Theme Contest Includes 4 Local Students!
Your voice matters! We need your stories, we need your voice, and we need you! Help make PTA’s grassroots advocacy a success by connecting with legislators about our priorities during Washington State PTA’s 2024 Focus Day and Focus on Advocacy Week. Continue reading Get Ready to Focus on Advocacy!
LWPTSA Council is pleased to congratulate Juanita Elementary PTA and Lakeview PTSA, both of whom have been selected as recipients of program funding by National PTA! Juanita Elementary PTA has been awarded a PTA Connected: Ready, Tech, Go! grant to Continue reading Congratulations to These 2 National PTA Grant Recipients
For a PTA, using gift cards is not the simple solution many would like it to be—a unique set of IRS-related issues and considerations need to be addressed. Check out the WSPTA blog post on gift cards. Much of the info shared Continue reading Gift Card Guidance for PTAs
UPDATE (11/20/23, 10 PM): SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW CLOSED. For 2023-2024, LWPTSA Council is accepting: All entries advancing to Council must demonstrate the theme and must be of good enough quality to compete against the best entries from the other PTAs Continue reading Advance Your Top Local ’23-’24 Reflections Entries to Council by 10 pm on Nov. 20
October 2023 Each month, we will use our newsletter to highlight what local PTAs are doing around various common themes. This month, Council Area VP Muusa Liinpaa has gathered some stories about how PTAs are meeting their fundraising goals. We hope this Continue reading Spotlight: PTA Fundraising Activities Across Council