A growing number of children and adolescents have diabetes and require care at school to ward off serious short- and long-term complications. In an effort to ensure that students with diabetes are safe and healthy at school, PTA passed an important resolution at the 2006 National PTA Convention: Recognition and Care of School-Age Children with Diabetes. The resolution sets out a best practices model for school diabetes care, urging that all school personnel receive general training on diabetes and that every school have at least two staff members trained to …

Sample talking points on school violence:
Schools should be safe and secure places for all students, teachers, and staff members. Without a safe learning environment, teachers cannot teach and students cannot learn.
As unfortunate as these incidents are, they should be an urgent call to parents to ask questions and take action for children.
• These acts of violence are not simply family or school problems – Communities must realize the shared responsibility and work with parents and school administrators to identify safety issues.
• According to the National Crime Prevention Council, the crime …