"First, it was bake sales. Then, for a few weeks, it looked as if raffles would also be banned.
At a time when New York City schools are struggling with budget cuts, the Department of Education proposed a regulation this month that would ban parent-teacher associations from holding raffles, a mainstay of fund-raising — especially after the city effectively banned PTA bake sales in June.
Parents were furious. “Everybody’s been going crazy about it,” said Wendy Vaphides, the co-president of the Parent-Teacher Association at the Michael J. Petrides School on Staten Island, which estimates it lost $1,800 by not being able to hold its annual holiday bake sales this year, and has a raffle scheduled for March."
At a time when New York City schools are struggling with budget cuts, the Department of Education proposed a regulation this month that would ban parent-teacher associations from holding raffles, a mainstay of fund-raising — especially after the city effectively banned PTA bake sales in June.
Parents were furious. “Everybody’s been going crazy about it,” said Wendy Vaphides, the co-president of the Parent-Teacher Association at the Michael J. Petrides School on Staten Island, which estimates it lost $1,800 by not being able to hold its annual holiday bake sales this year, and has a raffle scheduled for March."