Welcome to Hawthorne Scholastic PTA! We are lucky to have a committed and engaged community of educators and families always interested in helping to support our children.
Our PTA provides funding for a wide range of expenses and programs for the school that allows close to 98% of Hawthorne's budget to go toward teacher and staff salary. We work every year to protect our academic programming amid dwindling CPS funding. Without a strong commitment from our school community, we would be faced with even tougher choices in our classrooms. The time given by parents is as important as the dollars raised by students and parents toward improving the education at Hawthorne.
The Hawthorne community's talent and generous donations helps the PTA sponsor community-building events and provide our teachers and students with much-needed items throughout the school year:
- Support teacher and staff position funding
- Assist with Kindergarten Aide Fundraising efforts
- Support 8th grade graduation activities
- Support the Arts Partnership Program
- Sponsor Student Council candygrams, community service efforts and field trips
- Sponsor jerseys for sports teams
- Sponsor teacher supplies (primary, technology, music, security)
- Sponsor Principal Appreciation
- Sponsor Metropolis Coffee Sales & Dominoes Pizza sales
- Sponsor school supply kit ordering
- Sponsor last day of school pizza party