PTA

Lois Jean White became the first African-American president of the National Parent Teacher Association, achieving the feat in the state of Tennessee. White helped raise the PTA’s profile in several inner city classrooms where they were not present before. Lois Jean Barron White was born on this day in 1938 and raised by a grandmother […]

When Otha Thornton, president-elect of the National PTA, signed up to help lead the PTA at Maryland’s Meade Senior High School in 2005, the chapter had about 25 members. Within two years, membership soared to 400 as the school community mobilized to boost morale and academic performance. Now he’s trying to rekindle that spirit on […]