4/30/2011:
The Parent-Teachers Association was formed to bring the home and school closer together for the benefit of the child. And while the National Congress of Parents and Teachers had already been in existence for a quarter of a century, it was the Children’s Code Commission, established by the state legislature in 1921, that saw the benefit of the PTA in North Dakota and instigated the program.
But the people in North Dakota took it a step further, for on this date in 1925 it was announced that the first Indian and white PTA in the nation had been started on Standing Rock at Cannonball to benefit both mission and public schools.
Dakota Datebook written by Jim Davis
Source:
The Bismarck Capital April 30, 1925
Ward County Independent April 27, 1922
Laws Passed at the Seventeenth Session of Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota 1921