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...memoir, he used the anecdote as a jumping-off point for talking about playing with paper dolls when he was young, watching his mother's moment of fame on the television show "The Big Payoff," listening to her talk about white people and going with her to PTA meetings...
...only Maggie could have seen Mama when she'd stand up to read the minutes of the previous meetings of the PTA," Gates read. "It was poetry, pure poetry...
...elementary school in tony Brentwood, California (where one parent periodically sends her gardener over to tend the grounds), raised $78,000 to subsidize a computer instructor, a librarian, a music and art teacher and teachers' aides. "If we didn't have money from the parents," says Hillary Krieger, a PTA president who has two children enrolled at Kenter, "we'd really have meat-and-potatoes education...
Brentwood's Kenter Canyon is a case in point. In contrast to contributing the $78,000 last year to the booster club for additional staff, parents gave only $5,000 to the PTA, which can't subsidize salaries and must turn over 20% of its revenues to a citywide fund for disadvantaged students. "Some parents become very hostile about how hard we work, and then have to turn over a chunk of it downtown," says PTA president Krieger...
...fund drives draw fire, corporate efforts to help schools are applauded. In Los Angeles more than 1,000 businesses and foundations have "adopted" 650 of the area's schools, donating volunteer time, money and equipment. "The schools that are sexy to corporations are in poor areas," says a local PTA president. "When you talk about inequity in the public schools, the inequity really is to the [affluent] Westside...