We looked into it last year but didn't do it. In Illinois where we are, it wasn't all that bad. We certainly didn't get any help from the state organization but it came down down to the fact that we could do whatever we wanted with our group if our membership voted that way. Check your own bylaws and check your state PTAS bylaws if you canget your hands on them. Biggest place where the state seemed to have a claim was on money. I think I remember something about a bylaw that said the remaining funds of a disbanding PTA must stay with the PTA. We figured though that we just wouldn't have any remaining funds, we'd just spend what we had in our budget on our school and then start from scratch with the new PTO.

Like I said, we didn't make the change but we certainly could have.