In the United States, the there is also a national organization called the Parent-Teacher Association. This was founded in 1897 in Washington, DC as the National Congress of Mothers by Alice McLellan Birney and Phoebe Apperson Hearst at a meeting of over 2000 parents, teachers, workers, and legislators. It took the name Parent-Teacher Association in 1908. It is the largest child advocacy organization in the United States and claims over 6.5 million members, seeking a chapter in every school.
Among the US national PTA's early achievements were the creation of kindergarten, passage of child labor laws, establishment of a public health service, funding hot school lunch programs, developing a separate juvenile justice system, and enforcing mandatory immunization.
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