{"id":13323,"date":"2025-09-25T12:23:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T12:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=13323"},"modified":"2025-09-25T12:23:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T12:23:58","slug":"educa-ptas-rolls-out-nationwide-with-new-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=13323","title":{"rendered":"Educa PTAs rolls out nationwide with new guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"138\" data-end=\"329\">The Ministry of Education has announced nationwide rollout of Parent-Teacher Associations (PTAs) under a new framework designed to strengthen collaboration between schools and families.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"331\" data-end=\"490\">The announcement followed the submission of final policy guidelines on the operationalisation of PTAs, developed by the National Curriculum Review Committee.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"331\" data-end=\"490\">Education Minister Haruna Iddrisu urged parents and teachers to work together to improve learning outcomes, stressing that education is a shared responsibility.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"656\" data-end=\"1046\">\u201cPTAs are back. Now there is an established norm with guidelines to facilitate and support their work. Socialisation is a shared responsibility, particularly for young learners. While the child spends time at home, significant hours are spent in school, making both parents and teachers equally responsible for shaping the child. Ghana\u2019s concept of socialisation must be shared,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1048\" data-end=\"1230\">Chairman of the Committee on the Guidelines, Kofi Asare, emphasised that PTAs must play an active role in school-level decision-making rather than being seen merely as fundraisers.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1232\" data-end=\"1555\">\u201cThese guidelines seek to prevent PTAs from being reduced to contributors of funds. Their key role must be participation in decisions to improve teaching and learning outcomes.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1232\" data-end=\"1555\">\u201cThe scope of PTAs in school development has now been tailored more towards involvement in learning and decision-making processes,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1557\" data-end=\"1675\">Mr. Asare also called on the Ghana Education Service (GES) to ensure the effective implementation of the guidelines.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Education has announced nationwide rollout of Parent-Teacher Associations (PTAs) under a new framework designed to strengthen collaboration between schools and families. The announcement followed the submission of final policy guidelines on the operationalisation of PTAs, developed by the National Curriculum Review Committee. Education Minister Haruna Iddrisu urged parents and teachers to work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":13324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,41],"tags":[1062,224,3702],"class_list":["post-13323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-general-news","tag-education-ministry","tag-haruna-iddrisu","tag-pta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13325,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13323\/revisions\/13325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}