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National PTA regularly communicates with members of Congress and in the Administration about issues impacting children, families and schools. National PTA also joins with other education, civic, civil rights and advocacy organizations to amplify our collective messages to Congress and the Administration. Click on the icons below to read the letters to policymakers sent from National PTA in 2015. 

Child Nutrition

Sept. 14, 2015—National PTA Joins Other Organizations to Support the Hunger Free Summer for Kids Act of 2015
July 28, 2015—National PTA Joins Other Organizations to Support the School Food Modernization Act of 2015

Early Childhood Education

Aug. 7, 2015—National PTA Joins Other Organizations to Support the Availability of High-Quality Child Care for Working Parents Resolution

Education Technology and Student Data Privacy

Sept. 22, 2015—National PTA Joins Other Organizations to Support the Digital Learning Equity Act of 2015
April 28, 2015—National PTA Joins Other Organizations to Support the Student Digital Privacy and Parental Rights Act of 2015
July 15, 2015—National PTA Joins Other Organizations to Support the Safeguarding American Families from Exposure by Keeping Information and Data Secure Act (SAFE KIDS Act)

Elementary and Secondary Education

Dec. 7, 2015—National PTA Urges Congress to Pass the Every Student Succeeds Act
Dec. 4, 2015—The Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) applauds the House passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
Nov. 9, 2015—National PTA Joins Other Organizations to Urge Congress to Establish a Privacy Committee to Examine Student Data Privacy Issues
Oct. 19, 2015—National Coalition for Public Education Opposes the Reauthorization of the SOAR Act
Oct. 13, 2015—National Coalition for Public Education Opposes Title I Portability in the Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Oct. 6, 2015—National Coalition for Public Education Opposes the Reauthorization of the SOAR Act
Oct. 5, 2015—National Collaborative on Education and Health Support for the National Effort to Address Chronic Absenteeism
Sept. 30, 2015—National PTA Urges Congress to Include Statewide Family Engagement Centers in the Final Passage of the ESEA Reauthorization Bill
Sept. 29, 2015—National PTA Joins Other Organizations to Urge Congress to Pass the ESEA Reauthorization Bill
July 22, 2015—National PTA Joins With Other Organizations to Call for Starting an ESEA Conference Committee
July 13, 2015—Consortium of Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) Provides Recommendations on amendments to the Every Child Achieves Act (ECAA)
July 8, 2015—National PTA Provides Recommendations on amendments to the Every Child Achieves Act (ECAA)
July 8, 2015—National Coalition for Public Education Opposes School Voucher Amendments in the Student Success Act
July 7, 2015—National PTA Joins With Other Organizations to Support the Kirk-Reed-Baldwin-Brown Amendment to the Every Child Achieves Act
July 6, 2015—National PTA Highlights Priorities in the Every Child Achieves Act
June 30, 2015—National Coalition for Public Education Opposes School Voucher Amendments in the Every Child Achieves Act
May 1, 2015—National PTA Joins With Other Organizations to Support Physical education as a Core Subject in the Every Child Succeeds Act
April 13, 2015—National PTA Provides Comments on the Every Child Achieves Act of 2015
Feb. 2, 2015—National PTA Provides Comments on the Every Child Ready for College or Career Act of 2015 Discussion Draft
Jan. 28, 2015—National PTA Joins Other Organizations to Urge Congress to Require Data to be Collected on Military-Connected Youth
Jan. 26, 2015—Coalition for Community Schools Provides Recommendations for ESEA-NCLB Reauthorization
Jan. 26, 2015—National Coalition for Public Education Opposes the Portability Provision in the Draft of the Every Child Ready for College or Career Act

Health and Safety

Nov. 17, 2015—National PTA Joins Other Organizations to Support the Child Protection Improvements Act
Oct. 28, 2015—National PTA Joins Other Organizations to Thank Members of Congress for Sponsoring the Children’s Bill of Rights House Resolution
April 7, 2015—National PTA Joins Other Organizations to Support the Transportation Alternatives Program Improvement Act

Federal Investments in Education

Nov. 10, 2015—National PTA Joins Other Organizations to Urge Congress to Increase Funding for IDEA
Sept. 10, 2015—NDD United Urges Congress to Raise the Funding Caps on Non-Defense Discretionary Funds
June 25, 2015—National PTA Opposes the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations Bill
June 23, 2015—National PTA Opposes the House Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations Bill

Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention 

Nov. 17, 2015—National PTA Joins Other Organizations to Support the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015
July 20, 2015—National PTA Joins Other Organizations to Support the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2015
June 22, 2015—National PTA Supports the Second Chance Reauthorization Act of 2015

Special Education

Oct. 6, 2015—The Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) Urges the ED to Issue Guidance on Special Education Terms

STEM Education

Oct. 28, 2015—National PTA Supports the STEM Education Act of 2015