Fun day for fundraising

Mrs. Pat Hudson’s first-grade class had plenty of reasons to celebrate Thursday at Crescent Elementary School.

Not only is spring break around the corner, but her students were also declared the winners of what Wendy Sullivan termed a box-top derby. More...

Fundraising event is a fine art at school

TOOWOOMBA Grammar School's 2008 Art Show held on the weekend attracted a sell-out crowd of 500 to the opening night on Friday and about 600 over Saturday and Sunday.

The show featured more than 500 paintings as well as jewellery, leatherwork, sculpture and pottery. More...

Tired of catalogs, schools seek new ways of fundraising

Students asking relatives and friends to buy such things as gift wrap, magazines or cookie dough are as much a part of the school year as report cards and parent-teacher conferences.

But some PTA officials are saying enough is enough. They're searching for alternatives to catalog sales that emphasize education and improving the school community, rather than raising the most money.

In suburban Kansas City, that's been the goal at Franklin Elementary School in the Liberty School District for the last three years, where the PTA has replaced catalog sales with a four-week read-a-thon, with students getting pledges for the number of minutes they read. More...

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New Milford PTO demands leaders look carefully at proposed school budget

NEW MILFORD "" Voters in November elected school board members they felt would put children before dollar signs "" taking away a Republican majority for the first time in a decade.

Yet Republican Mayor Patricia Murphy's request to cut $1.75 million from the school board's $59.1-million budget proposal suggests she is unwilling to listen to those constituents, according to PTO leaders and education supporters.

The townwide Parent-Teacher Organization intends to demand the town's elected leaders look very carefully at the mayor's proposal, because they said the money she wants to take away may mean a loss of teachers, a return to pay-to-play sports, fewer library books, larger class sizes and less money to properly maintain school buildings More...

Salisbury school notes: Kids were off to the pig races last week

You've heard of horse races, but have you heard of pig races? Last Friday, the Salisbury Elementary School PTA hosted the first annual pig races. Each classroom that had 60 percent student participation in the 2007 Meadow Farms Fall fundraiser got one battery-operated pig to enter into the race. More...

Schools cutting bingo fundraisers, daunted by state rules

Organizers of some school bingo events say they are shying away from the fundraisers this year, afraid of breaking complicated state finance rules.

School officials, parents and community organizers say many were alarmed after East Catholic High School in Manchester was cited last fall for using a money wheel in a fundraising drive. More...

Rose L. MacDonald School launches box top fundraiser

The Rose L MacDonald School recently launched its 2007-2008 Box Tops for Education fundraising campaign. The school has earned more than $6,000 since 2002. This year the school has set a goal of raising $850. More...