The Zoom meting was called to order at 7:00pm on Tuesday, October 20 – postponed from Monday, October 12th due to the Columbus Day holiday. The minutes from the 9/14/20 meeting were approved. Attendees included: Deborah Villareal-Hadley, Tessie Thomas, Brian Fleischer, Courtney Redfern, Kristin Wood-Werner, Diane Tehranian, Marco Pedersen, Julie Read More >>
The Montclair PTA Council recognizes the complexity and difficulty faced by all interested parties in the district during this very difficult time as they make decisions about whether to return to school in person and how to safely do so. PTAC must advocate for ALL of our families in deciding Read More >>
In attendance: Deborah Villareal-Hadley, Tessie Thomas, Brian Fleischer, Courtney Redfern, Kristin Wood-Werner, Diane Terhanian, Meredith Pressler, Larry Livietsky, Marco Pedersen, Martha Bonta, Anna Kondic, Julie Clemens, Simone Robinson, Daniel Garcia, Norrina Hayat, Natalie Sullivan, Veronica Harris, Patty Gramcsik, Colleen Dougherty, Kathryn Fogliano, June Raegner, Jada Roman, Christine Banks, Laura Farrell, Read More >>
The Community Building Committee Hosted our first Welcome to Kindergarten 101 event to embrace our new parents and to have their questions answered by our PTA Presidents. This is another in a series of 101 events to help our community learn about our school system and to bring people together.
I want to thank Dr. Ponds for his update tonight as well as his weekly updates. I was also very happy to hear from Ms. Morgan describing the differences we will be seeing in the remote learning plan for the fall. Following are update for our PTAS and the PTAC: Read More >>
This a summary of the 8/11/20 PTAC meeting with Dr. Ponds and BOE member and PTA Liaison, Sergio Gonzalez. The call was attended by 50+ people, including officers of the PTA Council, the executive boards of our PTAs, PTAC committee members, and MPS staff including Director of Technology Chris Graber, Read More >>
AUGUST 10, 2020 IN ATTENDANCE: Diane Terhanian, Meredith Pressler, Larry Livietsky, Marco Pedersen, Martha Bonta, Anna Kondic, Julie Clemens, Simone Robin, Daniel Garcia, Norrina Hayat, Natalie Sullivan, Veronica Harris, Patty Gramcsik, Colleen Dougherty, Kathryn Fogliano, June Raegner, Payal Mariar, Jada Roman, Christin Banks, Laura Farrell, Mary Ann Vanco, Dory Hack, Read More >>
Apologies for getting this agenda out to you so late, but some of us had storm-related difficulties. We hope you all got through it OK, and hope you will be able to attend the first PTAC General Meeting of the 2020-21 school year on Monday, August 10 at 7pm. Please click Read More >>
REASONING The Montclair public school district has approximately 6800 students, with 1350 children in the K-2 years. We are a highly diverse district– approximately 44% of our school population identifies as Black or African-American, Hispanic or Multi-racial. Approximately 15% of our children receive free or reduced price school lunch. In Read More >>
First, the PTAC would like to acknowledge the anger, pain and grief that is affecting so many of our families as a result of the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery. Racism and white supremacy can only be eliminated in our country, in our town and in Read More >>