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The Top Mental Health Challenges Facing Students

  This guide helps to identify the signs and symptoms of common mental health issues for students and where and when to seek help. Left untreated, these issues can become debilitating for students, so whether you feel you are experiencing these issues or find yourself concerned for a friend or peer, it is important to take action now. For complete

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The Battle to Improve Special Education

It’s been 40 years since the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act went into effect, and school districts across the country are still working to ensure that students with physical or cognitive impairments have access to educational opportunities that address their needs. In some places, lawsuits have forced districts to do more. In Part I of this report on special education

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Submit Photos For P&P Slideshow By April 3

Would you please share with me 3 or 4 PTA programs photos from the past year. I need them by April 3. I am responsible for producing a slide show for the Duval County PTA P&P Luncheon that will be held in May. This special slide show will showcase the many valuable programs each PTA/PTSA provides to Duval County schools. 

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National PTA Founders’ Day – Celebrate Legacy and Work

Founders’ Day Celebrate Duval PTA Founders Day with DCCPTA at the February General Meeting.  National PTA Founders’ Day (February 17) is when we celebrate the legacy and work of our founders—Alice McLellan Birney, Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Selena Sloan Butler—to better the lives of every child in education, health and safety. It is a time to reflect and take pride in

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National PTA Releases Two New Position Statements

February 5, 2016 National PTA’s Board of Directors adopted two new position statements on positive school discipline and assessment last week. Position on positive school discipline states that exclusionary discipline practices should only be used in schools as a last resort effort and on an individualized basis in schools. Read the full statement Position on student assessment and opt-out policies

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