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Kuumba Academy PTA Membership

Membership is open to anyone who believes in the Mission and Purposes of National Parent Teacher Association. Every person who joins Kuumba Academy PTA automatically becomes a member of both the Delaware PTA and National PTA.

The Mission of the PTA

• To support and speak on behalf of children and youth in the schools, in the community, and before governmental bodies and other organizations that make decisions affecting children;
• To assist parents in developing the skills they need to raise and protect their children;
• To encourage parent and public involvement in the public schools of this nation.

The purposes of the PTA are

• To promote the welfare of children and youth in home, school, community, and place of worship;
• To raise 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; and
• To develop between educators and the general public such united efforts as will secure for all children and youth the highest advantage in physical, mental, social, and spiritual education.