Parent Committee 

Parent Committee serves like the PTAs at other schools.  Members of the Parent Committee help plan and participate in the holiday celebration, family picnic, volunteer program and other family events and projects.  Every Head Start parent is automatically a member of the Parent Committee and helps to elect the Parent Committee officers.

Parent Committee Officer Duties:

President/Treasurer – Conducts the business topics at each meeting, recruits volunteers, develops sub committees to help with events, becomes a member of the Policy Council, and coordinates fund raising activities.

Vice President/Secretary -   Takes minutes of the meetings, prepares and reads the minutes at the next Parent Committee meeting, and assists the president in fund raising and other activities.  He/she presides at the Parent Committee meetings in the President’s absence and becomes a member of the Policy Council.

Policy Council
The Policy Council engages in shared decision making with the Plano ISD School Board.  It consists of a representative and alternate from each classroom, one to three community representatives, the Head Start Principal, and a Plano ISD School Board member.

Member duties:  Approve the Plano ISD Head Start calendar, personnel, and budget.  They make policy decisions as needed, encourage and recruit volunteering, and participate in fund raising activities.  Members and alternates should attend all meetings.  Alternates will only vote when the classroom representative is absent.  Policy Council Officers will be elected by members of the Policy Council.

Member Elections

An election meeting is scheduled within the first six weeks of each school year to elect Parent Committee Officers and Policy Council Members.  Policy Council meetings usually take place monthly from 12 PM to 2 PM, but the schedule is sometimes altered to accommodate it.