{"id":10168,"date":"2021-07-02T19:38:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T19:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/?p=10168"},"modified":"2022-04-02T19:40:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T19:40:45","slug":"dwight-hunter-begins-two-year-term-as-tennessee-pta-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/2021\/07\/02\/dwight-hunter-begins-two-year-term-as-tennessee-pta-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwight Hunter begins two-year term as Tennessee PTA President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, Tennessee \u2013 July 1, 2021 \u2013 Dwight Hunter becomes the second male president of Tennessee PTA beginning his term as president of the Tennessee Congress of Parents and Teachers Inc., also known as Tennessee PTA, on July 1<sup>st<\/sup>.\u00a0 The first male president of Tennessee PTA was Billy Davis who served as state PTA president from 1987-1989.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Hunter lives in Chattanooga with his family. He started his PTA journey at Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences serving as president of the CSAS PTSA in 2004. One of his first acts of PTA advocacy as CSAS president was approaching the Hamilton County Commission to ask for and to secure funding to repair the school building\u2019s roof. He served as president of the Hamilton County Council of PTAs from 2013-2015.<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee PTA was established in 1911 and has a strong legacy of advocating for all children and families. Mr. Hunter\u2019s advocacy focus will be on increased diversity, equity, and inclusion for all; thereby, increasing participation in local PTA units throughout the state.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Hunter is a proponent of the community PTA unit concept &#8211; units not associated with schools &#8211; that provide community members access to advocating for children and families even if those members do not have any students in schools. \u201cToo often,\u201d Hunter said, \u201cpeople equate PTA membership with a school when all of us are involved with the education of our children and youth within a strong education system. PTA is connected advocacy from the local unit communities to the state and to the national level. Everyone has a place in PTA from school parents and caregivers to community citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Hunter served on the Tennessee PTA board of directors as Vice President of Advocacy twice, Vice President of Membership, Parliamentarian, and President-Elect. His first position was public relations committee chair. The social media channels used by Tennessee PTA were started up by Mr. Hunter and connecting through social media and other communications channels will be a priority. \u201cI plan to create several blog posts,\u201d Mr. Hunter said.<br \/>\n###<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee PTA is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit association. Membership in PTA is open to anyone who wants to be involved to make a difference for the education, health, and welfare of children and youth. PTA leaders are volunteers. Find more information about Tennessee PTA by visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnpta.org\">www.tnpta.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, Tennessee \u2013 July 1, 2021 \u2013 Dwight Hunter becomes the second male president of Tennessee PTA beginning his term as president of the Tennessee Congress of Parents and Teachers Inc., also known as Tennessee PTA, on July 1st.\u00a0 The first male president of Tennessee PTA was Billy Davis who served as state PTA president&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10169,"href":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10168\/revisions\/10169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}