Parent Efforts Help School Achieve

Even parent leaders at small schools can achieve big things. The PTO at the 120-student International Spanish Language Academy in Minnetonka, Minn., the 2009 Outstanding Parent Group at a Small School, helped its Spanish-immersion school bring the language and culture to its students by offering after-school activities and other events as well as holding a four-day community rummage sale, using the profits to bring teaching assistants to the school from Spanish-speaking countries.