Deadlines:

The DHS PTA Newsletter, whether in electronic or paper format, it is our primary communication tool for DHS parents and guardians. It reaches ALL high school families, whether they have Internet access or not.

 Submission Guidelines:

• The subject must be related to school, PTA or DJUSD. It must follow State and National PTA guidelines for noncommercial, nonpartisan, and nonsectarian policies.
  
• Send directly to DHSPTAmedia@mailman.dcn.org.  We follow Internet and journalistic protocol and cannot disseminate forwarded or second-hand announcements.  Please include your name, e-mail, and phone. If you don't have e-mail access, please send it to the PTA box in the DHS Administration Building.
• You may include the article in the body of the e-mail in plain text (without decorative background or formatted fonts to avoid being filtered out as SPAM), or you may submit a Word document as an attachment.
  
• Deadlines are noted in the newsletters as well as on the PTA website. See dates.
  
• When appropriate, the information submitted will also be posted on the PTA online calendar as well as the PTA website irrespective of the newsletter deadlines.
  
• When appropriate, the PTA Listserver Coordinator will also re-direct grade-level specific announcements to the respective class listserver for distribution, including the ones that have missed the newsletter deadline.
  
• Publication is subject to space availability.
  
• The newsletter generally comes out the beginning of each month during the school year. Submissions regarding information that is happening before the date of distribution will be subject to the LATE SUBMISSION POLICY described below.
  
• See "Announcements for the Daily Bulletin" below for announcements intended for students.
  

Note: When you send an announcement to the e-mail address DHSPTAmedia@mailman.dcn.org (note the word "media" after DHSPTA in the address), PTA volunteers responsible for the newsletter, listserver, website, web calendar as well as the PTA president will simultaneously receive your message and will help you disseminate it to the DHS community through the appropriate channel(s). This is a permanent address to help streamline school-wide and district-wide communication.

Late Submission Policy:
Late submissions will either be put in a subsequent issue or discarded. However, late submissions that meet the following criteria may be sent out via the school-wide PTA Listserver at the discretion of the PTA Listserver Coordinator:

1. The information is time-sensitive AND is of an urgent or emergency nature.
   
2. Circumstances did not allow submitting before the newsletter deadline.

The intent of this policy is to encourage using the newsletter -- the only PTA communication tool that reaches ALL DHS families regardless of availability of Internet access (about 30%-40% do not subscribe to the PTA Listserver although the percentage has been decreasing). We also try to avoid burdening busy parents with too many e-mail messages from PTA.