PTA is the largest non-profit, voluntary organization committed solely to children and
youth. Organized in 1897, its basic concern has always been to create a better life for every
child. In the process, PTA has united parents, teachers, administrators, legislators,
and communities in this effort. The concerns have changed and evolved, but the objectives
and purposes of PTA have remained the same.
The objects of the PTA are:
- to promote the welfare of children and youth in home, school, community, and place
of worship
- to raise the standards of home life
- to secure adequate laws for the care and protection of children and youth
- to bring into closer relation the home and the school, that parents and teachers
may cooperate intelligently in the education of children and youth
- to develop between educators and the general public such united efforts as will
secure for all children and youth the highest advantages in physical, mental, social,
and spiritual education
Adapted from the National PTA brochure "The Power of Association"
