Advocacy

PTA advocacy is supporting and speaking up for children—in schools, in communities, and before government bodies and other organizations that make decisions affecting children.

 

​Alexandria PTA Council (PTAC) is committed to supporting advocacy efforts on behalf of Alexandria students and staff.

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Examples of advocacy include:  

• Discussing a topic of importance to your school community with ACPS & Alexandria City School Board

• Hosting an educational event at your school on an issue

• Providing comments to a school board meeting

• Working to implement strong family engagement policies 

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Our recent advocacy efforts:

• 8/17/21: Letter to ACPS School Board: Urging COVID-19 surveillance testing in schools

• 9/9/21: Letter to School Board: Urging ACPS to implement enhanced safety & health mitigation procedures, such as outdoor lunches, better ventilation in buses, reduced capacity in buses.

• 1/19/22: Budget & Policy Priorities

• 4/18/22: Pedestrian Safety

• 6/16/22: Comments to School Board: Safe Gun Storage

• 8/22/22: Pedestrian Safety

• 8/31/22: PTAC Advocacy Priorities

• 9/8/22: PTAC Support for Polk Sidewalk

• 9/8/22: PTAC Support for Speed Reductions/Cameras

• 10/26/22: PTAC Gun Violence Statement

• 10/26/22: DEI Committee's comments to VDOE proposed policies regarding transgender and nonbinary students

• 12/9/22: PTAC Support for GW Security Vestibule

• 2/9/23: PTAC FY2024 Budget Priorities

• 4/13/23: PTAC to City Council regarding the City Manager’s proposed budget for FY 2024

• 6/8/23: PTAC Special Education Advocacy

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If you are interested in supporting our advocacy efforts or have a new issue you’d like to discuss, please contact: Advocacy@alexvaptac.org

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Resources:

• Have a question, concern, or comment you want to share with ACPS leadership? Community members can ask questions about division-wide issues to ACPS leaders at ask@acps.k12.va.us.

• To submit a letter to the Alexandria City School Board, use this link.

• To provide public comments to the Alexandria City School Board, use this link to register.

• Virginia PTA Advocacy Resources

• National PTA Advocacy Resources & Position Statements