Welcome to the new Iowa PTA website!  We are still updating and expanding to serve you better.  If you have any suggestions, we would love to hear from you.

Is winter almost over? Wishful thinking! But where does the time go!!  With so many activities and events, it can be hard to keep up.  Hang in there and remember, Iowa PTA is here for you.  If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us. 

Iowa PTA is proud to be sending three delegates to the Legislative Conference held in Washington D.C., March 6-8.  We get to march on Capitol Hill with delegates from around the globe.  It will be a wonderful opportunity for us to really advocate for our children and let our united voices be heard to our law makers.

The Iowa PTA Board is working hard on our upcoming state convention, to be held in DesMoines spring 2012.  It will offer great opportunities to learn new leadership skills and network with other PTA members on whats going on around the state, sharing you stories of success and asking questions that need answers.  Anyone is welcome to attend the convention.  You don't even need to be a current unit officer or even a PTA member to attend!!

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NOTICE - Iowa PTA Board Meeting - February 11- Newton, Iowa

at The AmericInn, located right off I-80 at Exit 168

Any Iowa PTA member is welcome to attend.

NATIONAL PTA DUES INCREASE !!!!

Dear PTA Presidents and Leaders,

For over 100 years, the PTA has been the organization that our nation’s families rely on to represent public education and children. PTA is the bedrock of most school communities, providing a place for parents and teachers to belong to a greater organization designed to improve their schools and children’s lives.

As PTA members, we belong to a group that promotes better choices for our children. A group that utilizes its’ collective power to achieve the goals of improving the health and welfare of all children. 

Over the past ten years, National PTA has wrestled with continuing to leverage our collective power while still providing the services that are needed at the local level. The past ten years have been marked by increasing costs and further demand on all of National PTAs resources. National PTA has instituted various cost cutting measures over the years to attempt to keep pace with these rising costs. With consideration of the rising costs, the expense reductions already implemented and increased demand for services, the National PTA Executive Board decided it should recommend the first fee increase in ten years.

At the National PTA Convention recently, delegates took these many struggles into account and vigorously discussed the issues facing our organization. It was after much debate that delegates voted to raise National PTA’s portion of the member fees from $1.75 to $2.25. With this change, the member fee for the combined Iowa PTA/ PTSA and National PTA will increase from $4.25 to $4.75 beginning July 1, 2011.

Although we all know that this is a difficult time to be implementing a fee increase, PTA remains an incredible value. For the cost of two Sunday papers, PTA members belong to a group that uses its power to give everyone a choice and offers enjoyable experiences for students and families.

Thank you for your service to your PTA/PTSA, your community and, most importantly, our children. It takes leaders to make an organization great. Thank you for being a leader.

 Click for a Q&A letter To Unit Leaders

Be sure to turn in you officer information, your updated bylaws and your dues for each member to stay in compliance with PTA.

Click for a review of how the IRS is cracking down on non-compliant non profit organizations!!!