PFLASA provides grants to our faculty and staff for various areas to help support our LASA students and school community. Faculty, staff and others may submit grant requests via our online form for any professional development, instructional material/equipment, and in some cases, student hardship scholarship cases. Once the principal has approved the request, the request is then sent to the PFLASA grants committee for processing. The PFLASA board must vote on all grant requests. Submitters will be notified within two weeks of submission of the status of their request.

In addition to grant requests, our faculty, staff and others may request an item to be donated (as-is). These types of requests can be made by the submitter directly on the LASA Facebook Give/Trade Group or by a member of the Grants committee.

Finally, the LASA faculty & staff have a $100 discretionary allotment to spend on anything for their classroom. The staff member will submit receipts to be reimbursed for those purchases, up to $100.

In summary, PFLASA can provide:

1. PFLASA Grant: Professional Development ($300 limit) or National Board Certification funding ($1000 limit)
2. PFLASA Grant: LASA instructional materials and equipment such as books, DVDs, microscopes, labs, etc.
3. PFLASA Grant: Student Scholarship/s (for a field trip, etc.)
4. LASA GIVE  (will be posted on PFLASA Facebook Give/Trade Group)
5. $100 faculty/staff discretionary allotment  

The Grants committee will review your request, upon submission of the forms and contact you no later than 2 weeks from the date of submission. You may be required to submit supporting documents, such as quotes from various vendors. You will be contacted with instructions on how to submit the documents, after you submit your request. If approved, you will be asked to complete the PFLASA Request for Reimbursement Google Form and email relevant receipts or invoices to treasurer@pflasa.org.

PFLASA does not reimburse for any taxes paid. When making purchases, please use the PFLASA Sales Tax Exemption certificate, which is available in the PFLASA box in the office and is on the S: Drive, or click here for the sales tax exemption form.  If approved, you will be asked to email invoices or receipts with a PFLASA Request for Payment Form to treasurer@pflasa.org.

Deadline for Grant Requests­ is May of each school year. Questions? Contact grants@pflasa.org
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1. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Every faculty and staff member may request up to $300 each school year towards professional development. Requests are filled on a first-come, first-served basis.

All requests for Professional Development must first be approved by the principal.  Summer programs are eligible and should be requested the spring before the conference.  In addition to teachers and counselors, professional development funds are available to LASA senior administrators, principal, assistant principals, and principal’s secretary.

Up to $1000/person for National Board Certification funding is available for those not funded by AISD.  

2. LASA INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT
Grants may fund items like classroom films/DVDs, books,  lab equipment, digital cameras, voice recorders, calculators, lab kits, and much more.  

Items purchased with PFLASA funds through the grants process remain the property of LASA even if the teacher/staff who requested the items leaves the school.

3. STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS
PFLASA has a scholarship program for students who would otherwise be unable to attend a classroom field trip due to economic hardship. This is not for athletic or extracurricular events. If you are planning a field trip and have a student or students who would be unable to attend due to the cost, please consider this program.
To conserve student confidentiality, please make your request to the appropriate administrator.  The administrator will review and approve the request and then a Grant form can be completed with the amount of money needed, the number of students who will be helped, and the purpose.  The request should not contain individual student data.

The maximum scholarship amount is $100, and the student has not received a prior scholarship from PFLASA in this school year.

PFLASA will not make any direct payment to a student.

4. LASA GIVE
Teacher/classroom needs can often be satisfied with in-kind donations requests will be posted on our LASA Give/Trade Facebook Group by either teachers (i.e. no request needs to be made here if teachers post for themselves) or by our Grants committee. Families often have items that are in great shape and are not being used.  Examples of donations procured through our Facebook Group include a refrigerator, bookcases, file cabinets, rugs, couches, lamps, art materials, theater costumes, graphic design services, and much more.  Items from the LASA Give/Trade Group remain the property of LASA.

5. Faculty/Staff Discretionary Allotment ($100 limit)
Every school year each faculty/staff member is eligible for up to $100 reimbursement on items he or she has personally spent for classroom use. This request is done directly through the treasurer and does not involve the Grants Committee.  To receive your reimbursement, you must e-mail the completed PFLASA Request for Payment form and all receipts totaling up to $100 to the PFLASA treasurers at treasurer@pflasa.org.
A request may only be made once per teacher per school year.  Use the PFLASA sales and use tax exemption certificate when you make your purchases as you will not be reimbursed for tax.  
Deadline for the $100 reimbursement is the middle of May each school year.

For questions contact PFLASA Grants Committee Chairs at grants@pflasa.org