Update on the PTA-supported Our Children, Our Future statewide education initiative

The most urgent crisis facing California schools is that they simply don’t have the resources to provide our children with the education they need.  That is why the California State PTA supports the Our Children, Our Future initiative, which will transform our public schools by generating a substantial amount of new revenues for K-12 schools and early childhood education.  Other initiatives have also been proposed for the November 2012 statewide ballot, but we believe Our Children, Our Future is clearly the best for students and public education.

We are moving full-steam ahead and helping to qualify and pass this initiative in November 2012.

All PTA members and leaders are encouraged to join the effort to qualify and pass the Our Children, Our Future initiative.

    For a more complete update on the initiative, please click here
    Click  here  to indicate what types of volunteer actions you’d be willing to take. 

Please don’t hesitate to contact Patty Scripter, Director of Legislation for California State PTA at legislation@capta.org, if you have any questions or comments.

Thanks for all that you do on behalf of all children and families!

Courreges has set a goal of collecting one million pennies and we still need LOTS of pennies!  When we achieve that goal, the public will be invited to view what a million looks like.  Pennies can be dropped into the water bottle outside the school office or at First Class Pizza, 18671 Brookhurst Street.

The Anytime Fitness 5K Fun Run benefits charities all over Fountain Valley.  When you register, please select Courreges PTA (listed as Courreges PTO by mistake) to benefit from your enrollment.  It’s a great way to have fun and support our community.  Please click here for more info: Anytime Fitness 5K 2012 Poster or www.fv5k.org

Although the Jog-a-thon funds most of our amazing programs at Courreges, there is no budget available to purchase prizes for our dedicated students that raised $150 or more.  Please look through your child’s holiday gifts for duplicates or for those items your child will never use, and place them in the DOUG’s box outside the school office.  DOUG’s are “Duplicate or Unwanted Gifts” and they make fantastic prizes.  Also, keep us in mind as you check out those after Christmas sales.  Remember, our target age is 6-11 years old, since the goal is to motivate our Courreges students! If you have any questions, please contact Monica Maytorena at 714-596-1302. Click for flyer:    DOUG Request

Please let us know how you can help make our Science Day a success.  We need your ideas for science experiments, demonstrations or science topics of interest that can be presented to elementary-aged kids in about 10-30 minute intervals. If you have a science experiment, idea for a science talk, contacts for a science demo or talk, or are willing to do a science experiment  or presentation for our kids, please contact Jennifer Edmonds at jfedmonds@verizon.net.  We’ll also happily accept donations, kits, science gear and more.  Our Courreges elementary kids will rotate through several experiments on Science Day to learn more about all types of science: biology, chemistry, astronomy, physics, zoology, and more. The more help and contact we get, the more exciting the day will be for our kids.  So dig back into your college and high school books, or even your current or former workplace and figure out what you can do to help our Courreges Science day.  Some ideas so far: rocket launch demo; magical egg trick; chemistry demo of color changing liquids, and the physics of hula-hooping.  Please send us your ideas and any help you can give.

Please join us on February 15 to learn more about the State Initiative to provide school funding for the future.  Click here for the details: PTA Roundtable on State Initiative

To gain a better understanding of the initiative, please click here for a brief summary: Our Children, Our Future Fact Sheet