Welcome to the Westchester East Putnam Region PTA website! We are delighted to have this vehicle for communicating quickly with our entire PTA community. We hope you use it well and often.

            For over fifty years the WEPR PTA has worked to carry out the National PTA objectives of helping home and school to “cooperate intelligently in the education of children and youth” and of guaranteeing all students “the highest advantages in physical, mental, social, and spiritual education.” We believe that strong, vital public education is one of the outstanding traditions of our nation and that excellence in public education relies on consistent, meaningful collaboration between school and home and the active involvement of well-informed parents and community members.

            For this reason, WEPR PTA offers a wide variety of resources and training to help you, our local PTAs, in fulfilling your responsibilities to your school communities. Among our usual services are the Summer Social for Leadership Training, the Annual Fall Luncheon, and the Arts in Education Directory. New for 2006-2007 is the Advocacy/Legislation Breakfast scheduled for March 10. We are excited about the possibilities for this event, which is still under design, and encourage you to contact us with your suggestions for workshops or presenters.

           The WEP Region PTA also is your liaison with New York State PTA and helps to bring home to you the many services and resources provided by the state. (For more information on these, you might also visit www.nyspta.org, the NYS PTA website.) A wealth of knowledge and experience can also be found among the officers, committee chairs, assistant directors, and council presidents who make up our Westchester East Putnam Region board. Whatever their role, board members are ready and eager to assist you with whatever question, issue, or project you may have. Our names, PTA positions, and contact information can be found on this website, as well as in our printed region directory. We urge you to peruse the website and find all the ways our region PTA contacts and resources can help you play your vital role in your local PTA.

            Volunteers are the heart of PTA, an organization that for over one hundred years has relied on the efforts of caring, committed parents and teachers to advocate for the benefit of all our children. We thank you for being those volunteers—for being PTA—and we look forward to working with you for everychild with onevoice.

           Jane Harsha, Region Director
           914-556-8293
           jeh56@cornell.edu

           everychild. onevoice.
           cadanino. unavoz.