Who We Are

Virginia Parent Teacher Association

The Virginia PTA is the strongest group of volunteers in the state working exclusively on behalf of children and youth. Chartered by the National PTA in 1921, the primary goal of the Virginia PTA/PTSA is to strengthen our family units, our schools and our communities through parent/family involvement. PTA recognizes parents as the first educators in the home and works to promote parents as partners in the school.

The Virginia PTA/PTSA is geographically divided into twenty-one districts in six regions in over 1200 local units with an annual membership well over 380,000. Managed by an all volunteer Board of Managers elected by the membership, the VA PTA/PTSA is the 4th largest Congress of the 54 Congresses in the National PTA.

http://www.vapta.org

Virginia Middle School Association

The Virginia Middle School Association (VMSA) is a voice for those committed to the educational and developmental needs of young adolescents. VMSA is a key resource to middle level educators looking to develop more effective schools. Our message is for schools to be academically excellent, developmentally responsive, and socially equitable for every young adolescent.

http://www.vmsa.org

Virginia Counselors Association

Virginia Counselors Association (VCA) was founded in Richmond in 1930 as the Virginia Personnel and Guidance Association (VPGA). VCA is dedicated to the goal of meeting the needs of Virginia counselors in a variety of work settings. It is a dynamic and active organization that has been effective in responding to state-wide issues and in providing opportunities for professional interaction at the state and local levels.

http://www.vcacounselors.org

Virginia School Counselor Association

The Virginia School Counselor Association (VSCA), is comprised of over 1,000 school counselors from throughout the state of Virginia, is the largest division of the Virginia Counselors Association (VCA), and the official state branch of the American School Counselor Association (ASCA). VSCA strives to serve and represent school counselors in all academic work settings, elementary school through post-secondary, including counselor educators and supervisors of counselors.

http://www.vsca.org

Communities for Quality Education

Communities for Quality Education, a national education advocacy group, seeks to build a partnership between people inside and outside the education community who share the common goal of building better public schools for every child. Recently, CQE launched an initiative with a bipartisan group of Virginia legislators calling for greater flexibility from some No Child Left Behind regulations to protect the state's highly successful education reforms.

http://www.qualityednow.org