The PTA Budget is a Promise to Our School
Our school offers a unique opportunity to talented students who are challenged to complete two years of college coursework by their high school graduation. In partnership with some of America’s largest and most diverse public school systems, Bard College confers transferable A.A. degrees to these students at no cost to their families.
Bard Early College is a multi-campus network, established to provide high school students with a free opportunity to go farther and faster than the status quo in public education. Like most public schools, our PTA generally compensates for shrinking operating budgets.
Contribute to the PTA and you can invest in your own child’s future, support our school, and help to ensure other students’ success.
Year 1 College Trip
Beth Cheikes, our CTO Director, organized a whirlwind day trip to Bard College and SUNY Albany.
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Other recent opportunities to get on the bus:
• Johns Hopkins and Goucher College
• Yale and Southern Connecticut State University
• Vassar and University of New Haven
College Textbooks
The DOE only funds course books from K-12, so it’s up to our community to ensure our college program can access appropriate texts. Because this personal library is gifted to each Bard student, they don’t just read these books. They annotate and discuss, consuming great works and forming their own big ideas in kind.
For $150.00 you can cover the cost of your student’s seminar books, and please consider sponsoring another student too!
Sports
The PTA budget fills the gaps in funding from the citywide PSAL program. New volleyball uniforms: $1,500.00. Bringing home the W for Bard? Priceless.
Student Clubs
One way the PTA provides financial support is through the PTA Club Grants program to defray some costs of meetings, programming, fundraising, and particularly associated with competitions.
Last year’s contributions included:
• Model UN conference registrations
• Key Club charter fees
• Lit Mag’s printing of this year’s Troubador
• Mock Trial’s entry fees
• Poetry Club’s zine printing
• Pre-Med Clubs’s sphygmomanometer, stethoscope, and suture kit
• Step Team’s uniforms for their performance at Teens Take the Met!
• Yearbook’s film cameras and processing
• Ultimaiden and Bardbarian support on their path to state championships!
Arts Programs
At Bard you’ll learn how to think. And art programs are essential to discover all the different mediums to express those thoughts. The PTA buys supplies for art electives and clubs. Can you fund a few paintbrushes today?
Student Planners
Executive functioning begins with the right tools. New York public school students are about to go analog with the new bell-to-bell school Cell Phone Ban, and the PTA will continue to fund a planner for every student to help track assignments and deadlines. Because pen and paper never goes out of style.