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PTA FUNDS
PTA funding also shows
some racial disparities, with
schools serving predominantly
Black and Latino students
bringing in less PTA
money on average than predominantly
white schools.
Mark Twain is 51-percent
White and just over six-percent
Black, while PS. 329
Surfside is only six percent
White and 61-percent Black,
data shows.
The additional money
brought in by parent fundraisers
typically bankrolls
school trips, art and music
teachers, after-school
classes, and all other programs
outside the core
curriculum. As a result,
schools without the advantage
of well-heeled parents
suffer a disadvantage,
Treyger said.
“PTA funds can hire
art music teachers. They
can fund after school activities,
they can fund trips
around the world,” he said,
adding that the PS 288 on
W. 25th Street almost had
to cut its stepping dance
program because of a funding
shortage.
Some argue that the disparities
in PTA funding
schools are not as alarming
as they seem, since schools
serving low-income students
receive extra city and
state funding, as well as federal
Title 1 funds that offset
the differences in PTA
money, Chalkbeat reported.
But Treyger claimed that
only a small portion of that
supplemental funding goes
to the PTA.
“The schools have to use
one-percent of those federal
resources for parent
resources and parent activities
… but a principal can
use that money to start a
workshop; they don’t have
to use that to start a PTA.”
Treyger argued that the
city should be required to
fund PTA resources at all
schools, which would jumpstart
PTAs, direct more
money to enrichment programs,
and increase community
engagement.
“They should provide a
baseline amount of funding
and support to ensure they
have active PTA organizations,”
he said.
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Mark Twain School for the Gifted and Talented’s PTA annually raises
about $300,000 more than other local schools. Google
Perv on the loose
Police search for suspect in
attempted rape at Kingsborough
BY JESSICA PARKS
Police are hunting the fi end who
groped a 17-year-old girl at Kingsborough
Community College on Monday.
The victim was inside a bathroom
at the Oriental Boulevard institution at
11:30 am, when she felt the creep press
up behind her and then shove her into a
nearby stall, according to the NYPD’s incoming
police commissioner.
“When she goes to close the stall door,
she suddenly feels the presence of somebody
behind her, who pushes her into a
stall, attempts to lock the door behind
him and tries to sexually assault her,”
said Dermot Shea.
The young woman managed to escape
the perv, and fl ed home to her parents,
who brought her to Coney Island Hospital,
before fi ling a police report later that
day, police said.
Shea said the victim may have spotted
her attacker — a teen of roughly the same
age — somewhere around Kingsborough’s
library just prior to the attack.
Councilman Chaim Deutsch (D–Manhattan
Beach) condemned the assault
Police are hunting the fi end who tried to rape a
teenage college student. Photo by Paul Martinka
and expressed faith that an arrest will
be made.
“I have every confi dence that the
NYPD Special Victims Unit will ensure
that this case is fully investigated and
an arrest is made,” Deutsch said. “As
a parent of a college student myself,
I want to assure KBCC students that
the campus is taking active measures
to ensure their safety, and they should
remain vigilant until the suspect is apprehended.”
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