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PTAC provides a support system for all the Alexandria PTA/PTSA units to share ideas, keep informed of division changes, and apply good PTA practices.

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Every PTA must do an annual financial review. Join us at Beatley Library in July or Duncan Library in August to do your annual review with other local PTA units. Register TODAY for one of the two PTA Financial Review dates using the link in our stories or our bio. Two time slots on each day. We'll see you there! by @alexvaptac

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Join the annual Wear Orange event on Friday, June 5! 6:30pm - 8:30pm at John Carlyle Square Park.

We will honor victims and survivors of gun violence and recommit do doing all that we can to end gun violence in Alexandria. We hope you’ll join us and our friends @momsdemand and @titansdemandaction for this powerful annual event. #wearorange

See you there! 🧡 by @alexvaptac

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5 months ago

Congratulations to our 2026 Golden Apple winners for excellence in family and community engagement!

The educators and staff are nominated by PTA/PTSA members across ACPS and nominations are reviewed by a committee to select the winners and honorable mentions.

The 2025-26 PTAC Golden Apple Awards recipients are:

ACPS Elementary: Martha Grutza, Physical Education Teacher, Samuel W. Tucker Elementary

ACPS K-8: Kaitlyn Golden, Social Worker, Patrick Henry

ACPS Middle School: Carly Jordan, Physical Education Teacher, Francis C. Hammond Middle School

ACPS High School: Rosalyn Hardaway, Director of School Counseling, Alexandria City High School

The 2025-26 PTA Golden Apple Honorable Mentions are:

Brennan Gappy, Special Education-City Wide teacher, James K. Polk Elementary

John Landis, Librarian, William Ramsay Elementary

Pamela Frost, Special education paraprofessional, Jefferson Houston PreK-8

Michael Burch, Lead Administrator for Operations and Special Projects, Alexandria City High School

@tuckertigerspta @eaglesphpta @hammondmiddlepta @achs_ptsa @jkpolkpta @williamramsaypta @pta.jeffersonhouston @acpsk12 by @alexvaptac

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We were happy to connect with nearly 100 students and their families on Tuesday night to celebrate and share the artwork of ACPS student winners in this year's PTA Reflections contest. Before digging into our special Reflections-themed cupcakes from MB Bakery (thank you!), Delegate Kirk McPike and ACPS Chief Financial Officer Dominic Turner joined us to recognize these young artists. Many thanks to them, as well as our art teachers and Reflections chairs for making this year's citywide contest and celebration a success. Four of these artists were recognized at the state level and Callie Coyne advanced to the national competition and WON! See their artwork here: https://www.alexvaptac.org/reflections-winners-25-26 by @alexvaptac

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6 months ago

Alexandria shows up. 💙

Today is #Spring2ACTion — our city’s day of giving — and our school communities need YOU.

Support your local PTAs making a difference every day:
Francis C. Hammond Middle School PTA
Mount Vernon Community PTA
William Ramsay Elementary PTA
Douglas Macarthur Elementary PTA
John Adams Elementary PTA
George Mason Elementary PTA
George Washington Middle School PTA
Cora Kelly Elementary PTA
Samuel W. Tucker Elementary PTA
Naomi L. Brooks Elementary PTA
Jefferson-Houston PreK-8 PTA
Patrick Henry K-8PTA
ACHS PTSA

But we can’t stop there.

The Alexandria PTAC Equity Fund ensures EVERY school community has access to:
✨ Field trips
✨ Family engagement events
✨ Classroom resources
✨ Opportunities for ALL students

Not every PTA has the same resources — and that’s where we come together.

💙 Give where you can
💙 Share with your community
💙 Help level the playing field for every child in Alexandria

🔗 Donate now:
PTAC Equity Fund: https://www.spring2action.org/organization/pta-council-of-alexandra-ptac

#Spring2ACTion #ACPS #AlexandriaVA #SupportOurSchools #PTA by @alexvaptac

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6 months ago

As part of the Alexandria PTA Council's (PTAC) continuing effort to advance family equity in Alexandria City Public Schools, we are participating in this year's Spring2ACTion campaign to raise funds for our PTA units that operate with fewer resources. Your donation will provide financial support for family engagement activities in the schools that serve Alexandria's most vulnerable children. Scan the QR code to donate today or click the link in stories and our bio! by @alexvaptac

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“As other neighboring jurisdictions increase their investment in their school systems, we must stay competitive in order to recruit and retain the amazing teachers that have been so impactful in my daughters’ educations. Over the past 11 years, my daughters have had teachers who made learning fun and relevant. These educators have built their skills and their confidence and they have made school a place where my girls want to be. I know these teachers want to stay in ACPS, too, but we need to make it financially possible for them to do so.”

PTAC President Teri G spoke in favor of supporting the 3.5% budget ask to support teacher pay increases.

@acpsk12 @acps_schoolboard by @alexvaptac

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7 months ago

PTAC, BAC, School Board, and the EAA stood together this morning to advocate for the ACPS budget. Thanks to the PTA members that also spoke at Monday night’s hearing.

We need city council to support the ACPS budget request of 3.5% to show our teachers they are just as important as every other city unionized employee. The time is now to support public education.

@tuckertigerspta @lctapta @acps_schoolboard @acpsk12

@sarahforalx @canekforcouncil @chapman4council @abdelelnoubi @jacinta4alexandria @alyia4alx by @alexvaptac

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7 months ago

Thanks to Volunteer Alexandria for honoring the heart work PTAs put into ACPS. Several of our PTA leaders and volunteers were chosen by their schools for this annual event. Extra thanks to Executive Director of Community Partnerships and Engagement, Taneika Taylor Tukan, who helps our PTAs engage in their community all year long. We’re so lucky to have her at ACPS!

@volunteeralexandria @acpsk12 @alexandriavagov by @alexvaptac

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We have four @acpsk12 artists recognized in the @virginia_pta reflections contest!

2025-2026 REFLECTIONS ART CONTEST WINNERS - State Level (Commonwealth of Virginia)

Film, Intermediate Division
Award of Merit: Elias Hampton, George Mason ES
Artwork Title: Time Goes Fast When You Belong

Photography, Middle School Division
Award of Merit: Scarlett Womble, George Washington MS
Artwork Title: The Bee-longing

Visual Arts, Accessible Arts Division
Award of Excellence: McKayla Dixon, Alexandria City HS
Artwork Title: 4,500 Shades of Us

Photography, Intermediate Division
Outstanding Interpretation: Callie Coyne, Lyles-Crouch ES
Artwork Title: We All Belong

Callie Coyne's photography entry received "Outstanding Interpretation" and her art will advance to the National Competition!

See their art and all of our @alexvaptac Reflections winners on our website!

@georgemasonelementaryschool @georgemasonpta @gwmsprexies @gwmspta @alexcitytitans @achs_ptsa @lylescrouchacps @lctapta by @alexvaptac

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7 months ago

It’s time to tell our city that our teachers deserve the same consideration all of the other unionized employees in the city have received. We’re thrilled for our friends in police and fire, as well as the other unions.

The ACPS-EAA CBA released last week is thoughtful and is an important chance for our city to collectively say “yes, we value the work of our educators too.” Sign up to speak at one of the two city council meetings this week.

All Virginia PTAs are an umbrella of Virginia PTA, a mission driven advocacy organization (the largest and oldest non-partisan volunteer child advocacy association in Virginia!) that supports advocacy based on state and national resolutions and position statements. One of the biggest positions that VA PTA holds right now is that we must fully fund our schools and adequately compensate our teachers in order to produce a generation of students with the skills to leave high school and go on successfully to further education or join the workforce. JLARC 2023 showed us how far behind VA has been in adequately staffing and funding our schools. With public education being attacked at the federal level, let’s not attack it at the local level as well.

Support our schools. Support our teachers. Support our students.

#strongpublicschoolsstrongcommunities
#takeaction4kids
#everychildonevoice by @alexvaptac

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7 months ago

The budget is out and so is the very first collective bargaining agreement for teachers. The proposed 1.5% budget increase won't cover it, but 3.5% (as requested by school board) will. Sign up on the city council website to make public comment starting Monday. by @alexvaptac

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