Teaching Parents Association

TPA is a regional homeschool organization. Activities include citywide meetings on various homeschooling and education-related topics, and cooperative programs, including standardized testing, discount curriculum ordering, support groups, academic classes, book fairs, music, drama, athletics, and recreational events. Each spring, TPA hosts its annual Home School Conference, featuring dozens of publishers and distributors of curricula and other educational materials, informative workshops, and nationally known speakers. TPA also maintains a lending library of audio/video tapes on a variety of homeschooling topics and publishes a monthly newsletter.