Statement of the New York State Education Department on Recent Executive Orders Concerning Public Education
This statement can be found here: https://www.nysed.gov/news/2025/statement-new-york-state-education-department-recent-executive-orders-concerning-public New York’s Constitution guarantees a system of public schools “wherein all the children of this state may be educated.” Our State only began to take that command seriously in 1954, when the Supreme Court held that separate schools for African American children were inherently unequal. Since then, Congress […]
NYS PTA Position Papers on Critical Student Support Services
New York State PTA is committed to supporting every child with one voice, no matter their race, ethnicity, zip code, income, gender identity, sexual orientation, immigration status or abilities. Learn how you can incorporate DEI into your PTA! Want to learn more about NYS PTA’s positions? Check out these position papers:
NYS PTA Holiday Card
Congratulations to our Holiday Card winner, Nora Boecherer from Suffolk Region! Thank you to all the amazing student artists who took the time to design a Holiday Card based on NYS PTA mission. We hope you take a minute to view their hard work!
2023-2024 Winner of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award
NYS PTA Announces Winner of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion AwardJune 28, 2024 (Albany) – NYS PTA is honored to announce the winner of the NYS PTA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion award.This award serves as a means to honor NYS PTA units, councils or regions that demonstrate a leadership commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through […]
Congratulations NYS PTA Reflections winners!
Congratulations! It is our pleasure to announce the NYS PTA Reflections winners! For over 50 years, students have been sharing their personal stories by creating theme based, original pieces of art. Their outstanding artistic interpretation of the PTA Reflections theme “I Am Hopeful Because…” obviously impressed the judges at several levels in the Reflections program. Their entry was […]
Testimony of New York State Congress of Parents & Teachers (NYS Parent Teacher Association)
By Kyle McCauley Belokopitsky, Esq. Executive Director NYS Senate Standing Committees on Education and NYC Education to examine school policies related to discipline and suspensionMay 3, 2023Albany I am Kyle McCauley Belokopitsky, the Executive Director of the New York State Congress of Parents and Teachers, Inc. (NYS PTA), and am proud to represent our 220,000 […]
NYS PTA Recipients of Program Funding from National PTA
ALEXANDRIA, Va., (Nov. 9, 2022)—National PTA announced today the recipients of over $650K in funding to help host PTA programs this school year in the areas of mental health, STEM, digital safety, literacy, tobacco use prevention and the arts. Nearly 500 PTAs from across the country have been selected to receive funding as part of […]
Jenkins Memorial Scholarship for Teacher Education Winners!
The Jenkins Memorial Scholarship was inaugurated in October, 1946, as a special Golden Anniversary Project. In 1947 the fund was established as a permanent project as a living memorial to the young people who lost their lives in military service during WWII and was named for one of them, Clifford N. Jenkins, Jr., son of […]
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NYS PTA Announces Winners of New Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award
May 23, 2022 (Albany) – NYS PTA is thrilled to announce the inaugural unit-level winner of the newly created NYS PTA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion award. This award serves as a means to honor NYS PTA Units, Councils or Regions that demonstrate a leadership commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through recruitment, training and retention […]