The Caribbean Ex­am­i­na­tions Coun­cil (CXC) and the Caribbean De­vel­op­ment Bank (CDB) have an­nounced a col­lab­o­ra­tive ef­fort to es­tab­lish a Re­gion­al Par­ent Teacher As­so­ci­a­tion (RP­TA), an en­ti­ty de­signed to uni­fy and strength­en par­ent-teacher en­gage­ment across the Caribbean.

The RP­TA will fo­cus on sev­er­al key ob­jec­tives, in­clud­ing pro­mot­ing co­op­er­a­tion among na­tion­al Par­ent-Teacher As­so­ci­a­tions (PTAs), fa­cil­i­tat­ing di­rect com­mu­ni­ca­tion with Min­istries of Ed­u­ca­tion and oth­er gov­ern­ment au­thor­i­ties, build­ing strate­gic al­liances with gov­ern­ments on ed­u­ca­tion­al mat­ters, and ad­vo­cat­ing for im­prove­ments in the re­gion­al ed­u­ca­tion sys­tem to pos­i­tive­ly im­pact the wel­fare of stu­dents, teach­ers, and par­ents.

Over 30 rep­re­sen­ta­tives of na­tion­al and school-based par­ent-teacher as­so­ci­a­tions (PTAs), and par­ent ad­vo­cate groups across the Caribbean, have unan­i­mous­ly agreed to sup­port the ini­tia­tive.