A Father's Place Is in the School
Ángel Franco/The New York TimesJuan Brea, president of the P.S. 11 PTA, walks to school with his daughter and wife.Feb. 20, 2012, 8:56 a.m.
There have always been fathers involved in school PTAs, fund raising and education governance and politics. But as Kyle Spencer reported in The New York Times last week, these days there are not just more Dads involved in city school PTAs. The Dads are also putting their own stamp on the schools.
A 2009 study by the National Congress of Parents and Teachers and the National Center for Fathering, a