All Utah PTA Resolutions can be found on our website: utahpta.org/resolutions-position-statements
EDU 2019-2 Support for Quality Literacy Education
Improving Literacy Efforts in all aspects of a child’s life including at home, school, and in the community both early in life and beyond.
EDU 2019-1 Best Practices in Education
Encourage practices which enhance teacher capacity, school leadership, family and student engagement, student-centered learning climates, and instruction and curriculum alignment.
EDU 2017-1 High Expectations for Students with Disabilities
Encourage teachers, students, parents, administrators, and members of the community to have and maintain high expectations for all students including students with disabilities, including high expectations by the students themselves and encourage school communities to include children with disabilities and their families in all school activities.
EDU 2017-2 Support for Counselors, Psychologists, and Social Workers in Schools
Encourage increased support for counseling programs through more training and funding in both elementary and secondary schools to help with mental health concerns in students.
EDU 2015-1 School Trust Lands
Encourage state and local officials to take all necessary steps to assure that management of the school trust lands is in accordance with trust duties and principles.
EDU 2015-2 Support for Community Schools
The Community School model promotes more efficient use of school buildings, heightened security, community pride, and better rapport among students and residents.
EDU 2015-3 State Board of Education
PTA supports the democratic process and encourages its membership to be active participants in the election. As the body elected to establish policy and standards for education, Utah PTA supports nonpartisan election of state school board members.
EDU 2014-1 Public School Accountability
Support systems of accountability for public schools that take into account numerous qualitative characteristics; advocate against the implementation of any accountability system that reduces the evaluation of a school to a single grade or score.
EDU 2014-2 Chronic Absenteeism
Encourage parents and students to promote student attendance and address chronic absenteeism.
EDU 2014-3 Dyslexia and Other Specific Learning Disabilities
Collaborate with schools and community organizations to educate, advocate for, and support legislation for funding to assist in training of parents, teachers, and other school personnel in early identification, appropriate education intervention, and assisted technologies for dyslexia and other specific learning disabilities.
EDU 2013-1 Family Engagement in Education
Actively seek or develop and promote programs that assist parents in developing the skills they need to raise and protect their children.
EDU 2011-1 Excellence in Teaching
Advocate for policies that strengthen respect and adequate funding for public education and the teaching profession; support high standards for teacher preparation, licensing, hiring, and professional development; and support a comprehensive, fair, and effective evaluation system for educators that includes peer review and parental input to ensure excellence in teaching.
EDU 2011-2 PTA Support for Local School Community Councils
Train local PTA units on the roles of the School Community Council (SCC) and encourage PTA members to actively serve on their SCC; collaborate with the Utah State Board of Education to develop high level training for local SCCs and school boards; and support its implementation.
EDU 2010-1 Teacher Librarians and School Library Media Programs
Support funding for certified teacher librarians, school library books, electronic resources, and information technologies as part of the school media services; and encourage local school boards to meet state board of education standards for library media centers.
EDU 2007-1 Full-Day Kindergarten
Support the expansion of optional full-day kindergarten programs for students in need of support to achieve minimal learning standards and request increased funding to support such expansion.
EDU 2006-1 High School Graduation Requirements
Encourage school rigor in a wide variety of subjects while encouraging statewide practices and requirements that achieve balance and flexibility in student curriculum, opposing efforts that too narrowly define academic rigor solely as language arts, math, and science; ask the state board of education to encourage the implementation of flexible four-year plans as part of the SEOP process to help students explore and focus high school course studies upon post high school plans.
EDU 2005-1 Education of Students with Disabilities
Support continued state and local funding to sustain present programs to educate students with disabilities; support the right of each student with a disability to have access to an equal education via such means as Individual Education Plans (IEP) and 504 Accommodation Plans, and support education policies and legislation that will improve advocacy and parental education within the public school system to benefit children with special needs.
EDU 2004-1 State Board of Education
Recognize the state board of education as the body elected to establish policy and curriculum for education in the state; support legislation to restore nomination to, and election for, members of the state board of education in a way that is more responsive to the constituency of each state school board district; and work more closely with the state board of education in designing and implementing policies and curricula.
EDU 2001-1 Reimbursement of Fee Waivers in Utah School Districts
Lobby for legislative funding designated to reimburse school districts for a percentage of their fee waiver costs.
EDU 1997-1 Literacy
Support efforts and programs to improve literacy and encourage state government to make literacy a priority for all Utah students.
EDU 1997-2 Attention Deficit Disorders in Children
Educate parents, school personnel, and communities on symptoms and behaviors of ADD/ADHD; support effective interventions tailored to the unique learning strengths and needs of every child; and support legislation for funding to assist in training of parents, teachers, and other school personnel in identification and treatment methods of ADD/ADHD.
EDU 1995-4 Increased Support for SEOPs in Secondary Schools
Work to fully implement the use of quality SEOPs in secondary schools, strengthening the role of parents and students in that process.
EDU 1990-1 Alternative Schedules and Maximized Use of Facilities
Encourage the legislature to provide the necessary funding for schools to explore the options of alternative schedules and school districts to include parents, staff, students, business and community leaders in any process that may result in the implementation of alternative schedules.
EDU 1990-5 Language Instruction
Encourage local districts to offer students language-learning opportunities in elementary schools as well as advanced language learning opportunities in secondary schools.