2011-12 President Melissa Kicklighter

General Meetings are held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month in the Cline Auditorium, 1st floor, School Board Building. Hospitality is from 9:30-10:00 a.m., and the meeting is from 10:00-Noon.

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DCC PTA
P.O. Box 5397
Jacksonville, FL 32247

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Tackle Hunger

A Simple and Meaningful Service Opportunity for Your School

Are you looking for a meaningful and simple way for your school to serve the community and join thousands of youth across the nation in helping others? Souper Bowl of Caring is a national, non-profit organization that uses the energy around the Super Bowl game to mobilize youth to fight hunger in their community. Your students can participate simply by having a food drive the week of the Super Bowl. Souper Bowl of Caring makes it easy and provides you with the materials you need.
All you have to do is follow these 4 steps:


    1. Register your school at www.tacklehunger.org

    2. Collect your donations during the week of the Super Bowl

    3. Report your collection at www.tacklehunger.org

    4. Donate the collection to the charity that your school chooses

If you have questions, please contact Emily Heeg via EMAIL or 288-8414.

November 17th, 2011 | Tags: | Category: Announcements, Community

Holiday Postcard Campaign

iAdvocate For Kids makes it easy for you to mobilize your community to use their voices to tell our State Legislators that Public Education is important. It is our State Legislators who dictate how much the DCPS School Board and district office has to spend on our schools and teachers.

Have your parents, teachers, SAC, and community members write a few sentences as to what they want for schools in our district on these festive holiday cards provided by the CCSSI grant.
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Use your VOICE!

Campaign starts Nov 14th and will run to Dec 1st.
Cards and talking points from the DCPS Legislative Coalition can be picked up at the Nov 15th DCC PTA General Meeting or contact Vickie at WEB@DCCPTA.org to arrange for drop of cards to your unit. MAKE SURE – all cards need a ZIP code. This will drive home to our legislators that our members are paying attention.

The first week of Dec, we ask units to send their cards back through school mail to the Teachers’ Supply Depot. From there DCC will hand deliver / mail all the cards to our State Legislators.

Prizes will be awarded for the schools / units that turn in the most cards ($100 gift card to Office Depot or Staples). All schools that participate in this postcard campaign and the next one will be eligible for a raffle chance for another $100 gift card, as well as earn the “I Have A Voice” legislative award.

November 5th, 2011 | Tags: | Category: Announcements, Legislation

DCPS Legislative Agenda

This year Duval County Public Schools and Save Duval Schools created a coalition of agencies around town to discuss the state of public education in the District. DCC PTA was asked to participate with this coalition. Through the work of the coalition, it was decided to come up with a legislative agenda to present to our Duval Delegation members (state legislators) before they went into session in January.

The long term goal of the coalition is to ask for the State to come up with a sustainable funding source for public education.

Short Term Issues that the coalition asked the Duval Delegation to help with:

  1. Class Size Amendment – F.S. 1003.03

    • Challenge: It is not feasible to require school districts to pay a penalty for failure to comply with class size requirements when funding has been reduced $1,000 per student or 16% over the last five years.

    • Recommendation: In an environment of continual revenue reductions and to avoid additional revenue reductions for school districts, explore other ways of having accountability without a monetary penalty. Especially where districts such as Duval Public Schools have expended all prior year and committed all current year class size funding and supplemented with general funds to comply with class size requirements.

  2. Instructional Materials – F.S. 1006.40(2)

    • Challenge: State mandate to purchase new textbooks is too restrictive.

    • Recommendations: Purchases must be made within the first 4 years 2 years after the effective date of the adoption cycle; and

      Allow the purchase of instructional materials or other items having intellectual content that are aligned to the State standards and shall be used instead of State-adopted core materials described in section 1004.40(1) which assist in the instruction of a subject or course.

  3. Opportunity Scholarship Program – F. S. 1002.38

    • Challenge: The Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) is extremely disruptive given the short timeline, affects a greater number of schools and students, adds significant unfunded costs and is not effective in increasing student achievement.

    • Recommendations:

      1. Provide 1 year extension to transfer decision implementation
      2. Revise criteria to 2010-11 standards for eligibility; and
      3. Do not provide transportation for students leaving their neighborhood school.

  4. Differentiated Accountability – F.S. 1008.33

    • Challenge: The lack of local control and flexibility as well as the duplication of services within the DA Model requires additional time and funding and limits district’s ability to focus on the priority needs of our students.

    • Recommendation: Establish local control over accountability requirements and funding to schools by reducing the number of required reading, mathematics and science coaches employed by the FLDOE DA Regional offices by 80% of the allocated budget. This will enable the district to provide targeted support and better alignment of resources to meet student needs.

Download DCPS Legislative Agenda 2011 – Detail

November 4th, 2011 | Tags: | Category: Announcements, Legislation

America Recycles Day

The City of Jacksonville, Keep Jacksonville Beautiful and Southland Recycling Services will celebrate Keep America Beautiful’s second annual America Recycles Day in Jacksonville with a communitywide recycling collection event. In 2010, the partnering agencies collected more than 23,000 pounds of paper, plastic and aluminum products, which is used for the production of new goods instead of going into a landfill. This year, traditional recyclables will be collected along with used cell phones, iPods and chargers, gently worn shoes and teacher supplies.

WHEN: 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Tuesday, November 15

WHERE: Prime Osborn Convention Center, 1000 Water St. – 32202

Parking: directional signage will be posted. Residents may either pull through the loop to drop
off materials or they may park in the main parking area, on the west side of the building along Bay Street, and carry materials to the drop off area.

WHAT: Southland Recycling Services will have equipment on site to collect recyclables for processing and to shred paper documents. Additionally, cell phones, iPods and chargers will be collected for donation to Hubbard House for refurbishing or recycling; gently worn shoes will be collected for donation to Soles4Souls, which provides shoes to people in need; the Florida Department of Environmental Protection will collect plastic grocery bags; and the Teacher Supply Depot will be collecting items for Duval County Public Schools, teachers and students.

All materials listed below will be collected at America Recycles Day. Residents are asked to recycle and keep these items, many of which are valuable resources to others, from going to the landfill.

Recyclables:

Cardboard
Chipboard (cereal boxes, shoe boxes)
Packing paper
Junk mail
Magazines
Catalogs
Newspaper
Plastic bottles
Aluminum cans

Mobile shredding materials:
Documents will be immediately shredded on-site at the drop off point and sent to the Southland Recycling Services facility for processing.

Invoices
Credit card statements
Cancelled checks
Bank statements
Tax records or related information (outside of retention dates)
Computer paper
White office paper
Copy paper
Colored office paper
Forms and files
Fax paper
Envelopes

Reusable materials:
Mobile phones/chargers
iPods
Gently worn or new shoes
Plastic grocery store bags

Teacher supplies:

Three-ring binders
In/out trays
Calculators
Envelopes
File folders
Glue/paste
Hanging files
Hole punches
Ink pads/stamps
Magnets
Mouse pads
Note pads
Blank paper (all kinds)
Project folders
Markers
Pencils
Pens
Rulers
Scissors
Staplers/staples
Staple removers
Stationery
Tape dispensers/tape
Wire baskets
Styrofoam (egg cartons, punch outs, meat/vegetable trays, sheets of Styrofoam)
Plastics (film canisters, forks, spoons and knives, Plexiglas, self-sealing bags, Styrofoam, straws)

Miscellaneous items:
Beads
Beakers/flasks
Buttons
Carpet squares
Fabric samples
Games
Mylar
Nails
Pie tins
Promotional items
Puzzles
Shoe boxes
Shoe strings
Student incentives
Telephone wire
Test tubes
Toothpicks
Toys
Vinyl
Wallpaper books

IMPORTANT: This drop off event is for Jacksonville/Duval County residents only. Commercial/business recyclables will not be accepted. Other than cell phones and chargers, no electronic waste will be accepted at this event. Absolutely no liquids or household hazardous will be accepted at this event. Residents may take those items to the city’s Household Hazardous Waste Facility at 2675 Commonwealth Ave. Hours of operation are 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. The facility is closed on Sunday. For more information or to arrange for special handling of unusual material, call (904) 387-8847.

To learn more about America Recycles Day, visit www.kab.org and click on “America Recycles Day.” To learn more about Southland Recycling Services please visit www.recycleitjacksonville.com. For more information about Keep Jacksonville Beautiful, visit the city’s website at www.coj.net, keyword search “Keep Jacksonville Beautiful” or call (904) 630-CITY.

November 3rd, 2011 | Category: Announcements, Environmental

Location Change for Grassroots Advocacy Training and SLA

The Nov 5th Superintendent’s Leadership Academy and iAdvocate Grassroots Advocacy Workshop has been moved from Forrest High School to The Shultz Center.

If you are interested in attending the iAdvocate Training – Click here to register.

October 29th, 2011 | Category: Announcements, Legislation, Workshops

Common Core State Standards Initiative

Duval County Council of PTAs presents:



Florida Facts:
Our state was instrumental in the inital creation of CCSSI. The legislature created a law to implement CCSSI by 2014.
Duval County Public Schools are on track for implementing CCSSI.

October 17th, 2011 | Tags: , | Category: Announcements

Mr Rogers Sweater Drive

WJCT is hosting its seventh annual Mr. Roger’s Sweater Drive. The top three Duval County
schools who collect the most items from November 1 – November 30, 2011 will receive a
special prize.

It is the school’s responsibility to count and bag the sweaters, jackets, blankets and other
items for pick up. If possible, please separate the items for men from the female and
children’s. Please label bags: Teacher Supply Depot, #10 attention Duval County PTA and
prepare for pickup by school mail.

Download participation form for Sweater Drive 2011

October 10th, 2011 | Category: Announcements, Community, Teacher Supply Depot

History of PTA

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September 27th, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: Legislation, Membership

Florida PTA Region III Membership Award

WIN $250 for your unit! Deadline Jan 26, 2012
Download RegionIII FL PTA Membership Award (2012)

New Units Challenge
50 total members
15 male members
County Dues paid
Bylaws up-to-date
30% of members must be entered into Just Between Friends
Host Advocacy Training or other Program

Established Units Challenge
10% increase for 600 or less or 5% increase for 601 or more (based on previous year membership)
25 more male members than previous year
County Dues paid
Bylaws up-to-date
30% of members must be entered into Just Between Friends
Host Advocacy Training or other Program

September 27th, 2011 | Category: Membership

Power a Bright Future school grant program

Power a Bright Future gives schools the opportunity to win grants to help fund new or ongoing programs that let kids learn and grow. Parents, teachers and administrators can help give their school a chance to win up to $50,000 by nominating a new or existing program in one of three categories – Play, Create or Explore.

Find out more at www.PowerABrightFuture.com

Nominations must be submitted by October 17, 2011
Voting Starts October 24, 2011

Download Clorox Grant Program Flyer

September 15th, 2011 | Category: Announcements, Fundraising
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