Membership of parent-teacher associations, sports groups, political parties and organisations such as the Boy Scouts or Rotary are all in sharp decline.
BBC: A tale of two schools
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In Araioses, the poor town visited earlier in this survey, schools get 1, 600 reais a month direct from the ministry, and their parent-teacher associations decide what to spend it on.
ECONOMIST: Start at the beginning
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In addition to the bill in the Missouri legislature, other school boards, teacher unions and parent-teacher associations across the country are drafting policies and issuing advisements about which online or text-messaging relationships are acceptable.
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