The following is a list of recommendations to ensure that your local unit PTA continues to be effective and successful:

• Cooperation of principal, assistant principal, and faculty and a good executive board
• Enthusiastic and hard working committee chairpersons
• Active parents - this can be encouraged by keeping in touch with them through a newsletter
• Good public relations between the school, home, and community
• An informative PTA handbook
• Good PTA programs for students
• Profitable fundraising projects
• A thoroughly planned and constructive budget
• Involvement in cultural arts programs
• A well organized volunteer program
• A good membership campaign, especially during the yearly membership month (October)
• Regularly occurring executive board meetings
• Application of the National PTA Handbook
• Implementation of a quality hospitality effort
• Working with and for the Newport News Council of PTAs
• Reading the local paper to keep abreast of issues of PTA and education importance on a national, state, and local level
• Observe special days and celebrations (e.g. American Education Week, PTA Day at the General Assembly, Teacher Appreciation Week, Founder's Day)
• Excellent record keeping, especially a history of financial records
• Sharing of all subscriptions received by the local unit president
• Sharing of Council Newsletters with the local unit board and membership