1. District Digest - Plano ISD Volume XXVI, Number 35 Thursday, May 6, 1999 School Trustees Welcome NewlyElected Member, Canvass Election Results and Elect Officers for 1999-2000 The Classics, Plano Childrens Theatre, ptas/ptos and booster clubs, Plano Symphony Orchestra, in four cities Little Rock, arkansas; Durant, Oklahoma; Chicago, Illinois; and at http://www.pisd.edu/WN/DDs/dd5699.htm

Volume XXVI, Number 35 Thursday, May 6, 1999 1998-99 Back Issues Top Story School Trustees Welcome Newly-Elected Member, Canvass Election Results and Elect Officers for 1999-2000 Plano ISD Centennial Community Festival Draws Crowd to Bob Woodruff Park for Food, Fun, Games and Fireworks ... Retirement Reception Set School Trustees Welcome Newly-Elected Member, Canvass Election Results and Elect Officers for 1999-2000 School Trustees at their May 4 meeting canvassed the results from the May 1 School Board election, swore in new Trustees, and elected officers for the 1999-2000 school year. New candidate Ralph Stow captured the Place 4 seat, vacated by retiring Trustee Mike Evans, with 2,168 votes. Opponents Rita Freeman and Jerry Frankel received 1,344 and 1,398 votes, respectively. In Place 5, incumbent John Muns ran unopposed and secured 3,954 votes in the election. Trustees re-elected the existing officers for the 1999-2000 school year. They include John Muns, president; Mary Beth King, vice-president; and Gary Base, secretary. Mr. Stow is serving his first term on the Board. Mr. Muns is serving his third term. Ms. King was elected to her second term in 1998, and Mr. Base was elected to his first term in 1997. Other members of the Board are Dr. Allan Bird, Scott Carpenter and Duncan Webb.

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Arkansas Agency: Department of Finance and Administration Contact Person/Department: Roberta Overman Tel. No.: (501) 682-1895 Fax No.: (501) 682-7904 E-mail: Roberta.Overman@rev.state.ar.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 Private Schools (K-12) - Exempt School Groups (e.g., clubs, bands, teams) - Exempt PTAs - Exempt PTOs - Exempt Other parent groups (please identify) Church Groups - Exempt Youth Sports League - Exempt 501 (c)(3) organizations - Exempt 501 (c)(6) organizations - Exempt 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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Houston Local Emergency Planning Committee houlepc@aol.com Up Executive Board Contact Info Meeting Minutes 25 July 2001 Call to Order Membership Vote Chairman Pellerin announced there was no Membership Vote for this meeting. Approval of Minutes Melissia Roberson has stepped down as the Chair of the Information Subcommittee. The Executive Subcommittee is soliciting volunteers to chair this vital subcommittee. Chairman Pellerin reported that the Regional LEPC Conference Subcommittee would meet on 16 August at Lyondell-Citgo. Subcommittee Reports Finance and Administration Treasurer Sagstetter was absent and there was no report. Membership Task Force Rick Anderson of Reliant/HLP had nothing to report. Legal Task Force Information Subcommittee Chair Melissia Roberson reported to the LEPC Administrator that the Houston Home Show, conducted after Tropical Storm Allison, was a success. Project Impact volunteers were on-hand to discuss enhancing the ability of structures to withstand disasters. Liaison Subcommittee Vice Chairman Indest introduced U.S. Coast Guard Lieutenant Commander Proctor of Marine Safety Unit Galveston, who, along with Lieutenant Joe Leonard, presented an award to Chairman Ellis Pellerin for his tireless support of military Reserve members. This citation to accompany the Employee Support of the Guard and Reserve Award read

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Information on Lawrence Schools Area Council of PTAs and PTOs Update this information LSAC has represented local PTA/PTOs since 1915. It is a nonpolitical council which strives to help facilitate communication among parents, teachers, the administration and school board. With the use of a newly formed Parent Network database, networking has become much easier! Activities include an annual chili cook-off fund raiser,the funding of a Clothing Room and a Summer Reading program. The meetings are open to the public. Organization information Leader: Rudy Conrad, President Phone: E-Mail: allbidna@KC.NET Dues or fees: Dues are paid by PTA/PTOs. Meetings: Announcements per meeting For membership Contact: Holli Joyce, v-president Address: 837 Arkansas St. Lawrence, KS 66044 Phone: E-Mail: JoyceWorks@aol.com Arts Business organizations For kids and parents ... Contact Us Contents 2003 by lawrence.com.

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CHAPTER NINE RESOURCES Finding the resources to finance, maintain, and upgrade equipment, and to provide teacher training and technical support is universally one of the biggest hurdles that schools face when it comes to technology implementation. For many, the funds are simply unavailable via the conventional means of local tax-based school financing. Despite this fact, we found schools and districts in some of the most disadvantaged areas of the nation that have somehow managed to establish exemplary technology programs. How did they do it? In a word, they did everything . While we collected questionnaire information on a number of typical sources of funds (see below), schools provided literally dozens of interesting examples of how to approach fundraising. Some fostered and rewarded grantsmanship among their faculty; others developed alliances with community groups; and still others were able to steer traditional educational funding vehicles into more direct support of technology. Many schools identified non-monetary in-kind resources such as volunteers, bartering relationships, and corporate contributions of hardware and software. The best schools (from a resource acquisition perspective) had fairly elaborate strategies and tactics that combined all of these elements. One of the areas we focused particular attention on was how schools make effective use of Federal or state technology grant programs. This is an area where there is much opportunity for creative and effective public policy, as well as for some dreadful mistakes.

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Information on Lawrence Schools Area Council of PTAs and PTOs Update this information LSAC has represented local PTA/PTOs since 1915. It is a nonpolitical council which strives to help facilitate communication among parents, teachers, the administration and school board. With the use of a newly formed Parent Network database, networking has become much easier! Activities include an annual chili cook-off fund raiser,the funding of a Clothing Room and a Summer Reading program. The meetings are open to the public. Organization information Leader: Rudy Conrad, President Phone: E-Mail: allbidna@KC.NET Dues or fees: Dues are paid by PTA/PTOs. Meetings: Announcements per meeting For membership Contact: Holli Joyce, v-president Address: 837 Arkansas St. Lawrence, KS 66044 Phone: E-Mail: JoyceWorks@aol.com Arts Business organizations For kids and parents ... Contact Us Contents 2003 by lawrence.com.

19. The Latest PTO/PTA News | PTO Today PTOtoday is dedicated to helping school parent groups (like ptos and ptas) help their schools with information on fundraising, playgrounds, parent involvement and more. FEBRUARY 24, 2003 We seldom see newspaper feature stories that capture ptos so accurately. FEBRUARY 6, 2003 Delaware ptos team up to bring child abduction program to their schools. 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 1, 2003: NH fathers and daughters dance the night away at this "Enchanted Evening" fundraiser hosted by their PTO. APRIL 1, 2003: This CA elementary school celebrates Read Across America. Students dress up as their favorite literary characters. MARCH 31, 2003: Tennessee PTA named as Southeast regional winner in PTO Today's Parent Group Of The Year search. MARCH 28, 2003: This Massachusetts parent group gives their school department a gift - a $90,000 playground. MARCH 28, 2003: Local parent group in MA is helping students connect with soliders, "Operation Lion Share" . Students donate goods and hand written notes to send overseas to troops. MARCH 27, 2003: This Indiana dad finds time to be involved by joining his sons for lunch in their school cafeteria. MARCH 27, 2003:

20. Making Tech Happen Chapter 9 the Fort Smith School District in Fort Smith, arkansas, discourages direct Examplesinclude extraordinary efforts by civic organizations and ptas taking up the http://www.southern.org/pubs/MTH/MT9.html

Chapter 9 - Resources Finding the resources to finance, maintain, and upgrade equipment, and to provide teacher training and technical support is universally one of the biggest hurdles that schools face when it comes to technology implementation. For many, the funds are simply unavailable via the conventional means of local tax-based school financing. Despite this fact, we found schools and districts in some of the most disadvantaged areas of the nation that have somehow managed to establish exemplary technology programs. How did they do it? As an additional component of this chapter, we provide some information on the use of various information resources available through the Federal government. Not only is money essential for acquiring technology but so is good information about the availability of Federal programs and information sources. Questionnaire Data: Awareness, Use and Helpfulness of Resources General Approaches to Resource Acquisition In this area, we identified a list of nine very general approaches to expanding the resource base available to schools involved in implementing technology. It included various sources of resources (e.g., private versus public), various types of resources (e.g., money versus in-kind), and different types of relationships with the resource providers. In the questionnaire, we asked schools to indicate whether they were using a particular technical support approach and to rate how much the approach helped on a four-point scale. These questionnaire data are summarized in Table 9.1.

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