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MT DI News What is D:I? Membership Challenges ... Contacts FAQ's Tips Instant Challenge Links ... Return to Top of Page If you have Adobe Reader or plan to download it (it's free) you may download a PDF version of the Passport Application Form or request one from Montana Destination ImagiNation . Decide whether you want to have one team (Individual Team) or two to five teams (5-Pak) . Print out the form, complete and send it with your method of payment to Destination ImagiNation, Inc., P. O. Box 547, Glassboro, NJ 08028 NOTE: there is an additional fee per team that will be paid to Montana Destination ImagiNation. Click Here for more information on these fees. Return to Top of Page How do we register our team(s) for the Regional Tournament? You will need to complete the Montana Destination ImagiNation Team Registration form. This form will be available in September. The completes form and your team fee should be mailed to your Regional Director by December 1st if you want the "Early Bird Discount". Don't forget you need the names of at least two appraisers and two volunteers on the second page of your registration form for it to be complete. At least one of your appraisers must be willing to come to the state tournament in March.

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E-MAIL JS ONLINE WTMJ WKTI ... Advanced Searches JS Online Features List JSO Main Page OnWisconsin.com OnWisconsin LIVE Packer Plus Online Badger Plus Online Chat Editorials Entertainment Features Dining Lifestyle News Obituaries Photo of the Day Packer Insider Real Estate Sports Travel Traffic Weather Wheels Search JS Online AP - The WIRE Lottery Results Yellow Pages Classifieds OnWisconsin Cars General Employment Real Estate Rentals Personals Subscribe to paper Service Desk Contact Us News Wisconsin Milwaukee Waukesha ... PRINT THIS STORY Some PTAs say they're fed up with fund raising School parent groups look to scale back or rethink what they raise money for By Amy Hetzner of the Journal Sentinel staff Last Updated: Sept. 4, 2000 The Banting Bolt will run on, but parents have put the lid on Tupperware for Technology. Long depended on in a pinch to provide a check to cover extra field trip expenses or another jungle gym for the school playground, some parent-teacher organizations are questioning - and even backing away from - their role as their schools' main fund-raising arm. In districts such as Appleton, Waukesha and Whitefish Bay, PTAs and PTOs have reduced the ways they squeeze cash from neighbors and co-workers, sometimes even limiting what they will buy for their schools. Banting Elementary School in Waukesha eliminated all of its fund-raisers except for an annual run, and a Whitefish Bay school shelved its Tupperware sale.

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Marketplace Services Contact Us Community ... Local Guides National/World News Home Page News Sports Business ... E-mail Us Monday, September 11, 2000 PTAs rethink fund-raising roles Some parent groups are shifting emphasis to changing state policies By Amy Hetzner Scripps Howard News Service WAUKESHA, Wis. - Long depended on in a pinch to provide a check to cover extra field trip expenses or another jungle gym for the school playground, some parent-teacher organizations are questioning - and even backing away from - their role as their schools' main fund-raising arm. PTA and school officials say fund-raisers in general are getting closer scrutiny because of volunteer burnout, tapped-out money sources and concerns about how such funding affects equity among their districts' schools, with some better able than others to raise big bucks. This year, the PTAs in Wisconsin districts encouraged members to convert the energy they have expended on hawking magazine subscriptions to buy school equipment into a campaign to change state policies and improve school funding. "There have been so many fund-raisers for so many parts of kids' lives," said Nikki Beckwith, PTA council president for the Wauwatosa School District, where parents have debated how much fund-raising they should be doing and what they ought to buy.

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6. Multistate Tax Commission wisconsin. Agency wisconsin Dept. School Groups (eg, clubs, bands, teams) Exempt (See Note 2). ptas - Exempt (See Note 2). ptos - Exempt (See Note 2). http://www.fundraisetaxlaw.org/wi.html

Wisconsin Agency: Wisconsin Dept. of Revenue Contact Person: Michael Hinnendael Tel. No.: (608) 267-5022 Fax No.: (608) 261-6240 E-mail: mhinnen@dor.state.wi.us If your State exempts fundraising sales by certain groups from sales or use taxes, please indicate which of the following are exempt in your State. Public Schools (K-12) - Exempt ( See Note 1 Private Schools (K-12) - Exempt ( See Note 1 School Groups (e.g., clubs, bands, teams) - Exempt ( See Note 2 PTAs - Exempt ( See Note 2 PTOs - Exempt ( See Note 2 Other parent groups - Exempt ( See Note 2 (please identify) Church Groups - Exempt ( See Note 2 Youth Sports League - Exempt ( See Note 2 501 (c)(3) organizations - Exempt ( See Note 2 501 (c)(6) organizations - Exempt ( See Note 2 Other (specify:) 1a Are local sales and use taxes in your State applied to these groups in the same manner as State sales and use taxes are applied to these groups? Yes 1b Please set forth any comments including a list of groups not listed above whose fundraising activities are exempt from sales and use taxation in your State. If your State exempts fundraising sales of certain products from sales and use tax, please indicate which of the following products are exempt.

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E-MAIL JS ONLINE WTMJ WKTI ... Advanced Searches JS Online Features List JSO Main Page OnWisconsin.com OnWisconsin LIVE Packer Plus Online Badger Plus Online Chat Editorials Entertainment Features Dining Lifestyle News Obituaries Photo of the Day Packer Insider Real Estate Sports Travel Traffic Weather Wheels Search JS Online AP - The WIRE Lottery Results Yellow Pages Classifieds OnWisconsin Cars General Employment Real Estate Rentals Personals Subscribe to paper Service Desk Contact Us News Wisconsin Milwaukee Waukesha ... PRINT THIS STORY Spaghetti dinners becoming schools' bread and butter Parent groups' fund-raisers help pay for upgrades in classrooms, libraries, playgrounds By Amy Hetzner of the Journal Sentinel staff Last Updated: Sept. 2, 2000 If teachers seem a little freer with the staples, if schoolchildren are playing outside a little longer and if students are getting more chances to hone their computer skills - parent fund-raisers likely should get the credit. PTA spaghetti dinners and PTO magazine sales are helping pay for everything from staplers to playgrounds to computers for schools, where once they might have only funded field trips and dances. "We have to provide for our children," said Mary Finman, a member of the Parent-Teacher Organization for Waukesha's Hawthorne Elementary School, where parents led an effort to get new desks earlier this year, helped by both cash and in-kind donations. "And if the district is not capable of doing it, the parent organization is going to have to. We'd like to just be buying the . . . extras, but that's not possible."

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13. WASFAA Window Online Marty Olle, the EDVEST wisconsin Program Manager, pledges to coordinate the payout carecenters and public and private K8 school ptas and ptos to provide http://www.marquette.edu/financialaid/window/past/fall98/agency.htm

Senator Kohl Comments on Reauthorization EDVEST Wisconsin Update Great Lakes Update HEAB Website ... USA Group Update Senator Kohl Comments on Reauthorization by Senator Herb Kohl As you may know, the Higher Education Act (HEA) was recenty reauthorized by the 105th Congress. HEA authorizes the Federal government's major student aid programs, which are responsible for an estimated $38 billion in grant, loan, or work study assistance. It also authorizes several other programs for disadvantaged students. The principle objective of the HEA is to expand postsecondary education opportunity, particularly for low-income individuals, and to increase the affordability of postsecondary education for many moderate income families. The goals of HEA coincide with my belief that everyone should have the right to quality education. The main focus of this bill was on reauthorization of Federal student loan and grant programs. The most contentious issue was the student loan interest rate. After much debate Congress reached a compromise which established a new formula for interest rates for new student loans. Borrowers will pay interest based on a formula of the 91-day Treasury bill plus 1.7 percent while in school, grace or deferment, and the 91-day Treasury bill plus 2.3 percent in repayment. Some other important highlights included in this bill are: The establishment of a new performance-based organization to administer Federal student aid programs.

14. The Latest PTO/PTA News | PTO Today NOVEMBER 18, 2002 Mississippi ptos and ptas hold a NOVEMBER 18, 2002 Interestingpiece from wisconsin on increasing frequency of parent groups funding http://www.ptotoday.com/currentnews.html

RECEIVE EMAIL UPDATES: SEARCH PTO TODAY: Check this space frequently for the latest news and notes from the PTO world. Run into an interesting PTO tidbit? email us the news or a link to: news@PTOtoday.com April 10, 2003: Gold medal to this Arizona principal for understanding the importance of involvement. Nice piece. APRIL 9, 2003: North Carolina parent group holds a special fundraiser in order to display their freedom quilt. APRIL 9, 2003: Comprehensive program profile here on connecting with and involving Hispanic parents at one Atlanta school. APRIL 9, 2003: Weather doesn't dampen the spirit of this huge community-built plaground effort. APRIL 9, 2003: Hawaiian Luau. Coppertone. Playground. $5000. There is a connection for this West Virginia school. APRIL 8, 2003: Principal flipping burgers at this New York PTO's McDonald's Night fundraiser. APRIL 7, 2003: Comprehensive piece here on parental involvement challenges in North Carolina. Nicely done. First in a series. APRIL 1, 2003:

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16. 'A Ghetto Within A Ghetto' - Volume 17 No. 3 - Spring 2003 - Rethinking Schools support specialist for the Community Parent Resource Center of wisconsin FACETS ofa disabled child, you are not welcome at the ptas and ptos because, guess http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/17_03/ghet173.shtml

Search Rethinking Schools Help Home Archives Volume 17 No. 3- Spring 2003 'A Ghetto Within a Ghetto' 'A Ghetto Within a Ghetto' -photo: Jean-Claude Lejeune African-American students are over-represented in special education programs. Spring 2003 By Joel McNally The disproportionate placement of African-American males into special education classes has created a "a ghetto within a ghetto," says Gary Orfield, co-director of Harvard University's Civil Rights Project. Orfield says that this racial disparity makes it less likely that black students receive high school diplomas, less likely they will be employed after leaving school, and more likely they will end up in the criminal justice system. "This is segregation within segregation," Orfield said. "For a lot of these kids, this is a direct path to jail. It becomes an irreversible punishment in these kids' lives. This is taking a bad problem and putting it inside another even worse problem. It's just unconscionable." Orfield is co-editor with Daniel Losen of the newly published Racial Inequity in Special Education

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18. Chicken Run ptas have been replaced by ptos less dominated The alternative is not the stiflingvillage life that Michael Lesy exposed in his wisconsin Death Trap http://www.inequality.org/barber2.html

The Crack in the Picture Window By Benjamin R. Barber Is our sense of community eroding? A review of the new book by sociologist Robert Putnam . Benjamin R. Barber is director of the Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy, at Rutgers University. He is the author of "Jihad vs. McWorld" (Ballantine) and "A Passion for Democracy" (Princeton), among other works. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. By Robert D. Putnam. F IVE YEARS AGO Ever since, Putnam has been trying to make wise use of the funds in which his social capital project has been awash, hiring scores of researchers, running high-end seminars, scrutinizing a century of survey materials while simultaneously defending the flanks of his argument from ongoing assault, misunderstanding and abuse. The result is "Bowling Alone" (the book!), subtitled "The Collapse and Revival of American Community," although there is far more here about the collapse that has actually occurred than about the "revival" Putnam so earnestly wishes for. Now, I have been both a general admirer of Putnam's thesis about social decline in the original essay and a specific critic of the way he set about measuring that decline and how he explained it. But it is hard to remain skeptical in light of the formidable survey research and explanatory work Putnam has done. Indeed, he has taken what was a useful political polemic (we're losing faith in our political and civic system and each other!) and transformed it into a powerful sociological portrait of a democracy in imminent decline-a portrait as perspicacious, deeply felt and firmly rooted in data as the classic American portraits rendered in such works as "An American Dilemma," "Middletown" and "The Lonely Crowd."

19. ECS Education Issue Document Reconstitute ptas and ptos as Parent, Teacher, Student Associations/Organizations JohnBenson, state superintendent of public instruction, wisconsin. http://www.ecs.org/clearinghouse/16/91/1691.htm

ECS Executive Summary Education Commission of the States • 700 Broadway, Suite 1200 • Denver, CO 80203-3460 • 303-299-3600 • fax 303-296-8332 • www.ecs.org Every Student A Citizen: Creating the Democratic Self Campaign for Action Compact for Learning and Citizenship National Study Group on Citizenship in K-12 Schools Acknowledgments The National Study Group on Citizenship in K-12 Schools Sheila Bailey, education consultant, Vermont Elsa Banuelos, student organizer, West High School, Colorado Jill Blair, principal, BTW Consultants – informing change, California Steve Bonchek, executive director, Harmony School Education Center, Indiana Bernadette Chi, graduate student researcher, University of California-Berkeley Todd Clark, executive director, Constitutional Rights Foundation, California Thomas Ehrlich, senior scholar, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Stanford University, California Donald Ernst, government affairs director, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Virginia Robert Franco, chairman – social science; professor of anthropology, Kapi'olani Community College, Hawaii

20. Councils Website Results :: Linkspider UK Milwaukee PTA Council wisconsin - the Council resource for PTA hints Council -Organization information for the Council serving ptas and ptos in Kansas. http://www.linkspider.co.uk/Society/Organizations/Education/PTA/Councils/

Councils Websites from Linkspider UK Keyword: Councils Linkspider UK Directory Councils Search for Directory Tree: Top Society Organizations Education ... PTA : Councils (186) Add URL Advertise Here! Personalize Amazon ... Weather See Also: Society: Organizations: Education: PTA: Local Units Lewisville ISD Council of PTAs - Council provides online resources, leadership worksops and PTA links for 51 local units in 9 North Texas communities. Knox County Council PTA - Council online resource for local Tennessee PTAs with links to FAQs, ideas for Projects and Services, Events and Awards. Champaign PTA Council - Council dues, news and links for units in the PTA community of District 10, Champaign, Illinois. Culver City Council PTA - Council calendar, news, and local PTAs links for officers and chairmen in California. Alachua County Council of PTAs and PTSAs - Council PTA answers the questions to: Who, What, When and How as pertaining to this Florida unit. Fremont Council PTA - Resource for families within the 30 PTA units in California. Akron Council of PTAs - Council calendar, e-mail access, and Resource links, online at this Ohio PTA Council site.

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