Some individuals are more intimately involved in the PTA organization. They tend to be parents whose children have grown out of the school system, part-time teachers, or teachers. As one moves from the local level to the state and national level, PTAs become more and more aligned with the political agenda of the teachers' unions and less influenced by parents' needs. Note carefully the quotation above. Note how Senator Dole specifically criticizes teachers' unions, not teachers.
People generally support their teachers, but are less supportive of their unions.
This sort of political misrepresentation by the PTA is a clear indication of the type of partisanship inconsistent with a tax-exempt organization. Perhaps even more disturbing is the arrogant presumption that the National PTA speaks for all parents who join their local PTA with no knowledge or acceptance of National PTA positions. Dole asks who speaks for parents. I respond that the National PTA speaks for 6.5 million of them. I am offended by the assertion that it does.