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The article discusses the parent-teacher association (PTA) fundraising programs and plans to divide funds equally among school districts in California. Topics include benefits to the needier school such as Edison Language Academy in Santa Monica, parents preference for split up of funds, and donation-balancing system in school systems. Comments by Craig Foster, a school board member from Malibu, is presented.

AS a freelance writer years ago, Karen Stabiner would sit down at her desk the moment her daughter left for elementary school, and she would stay there (but for a bathroom break or a sandwich) until the girl came home after 3 p.m. When Sarah headed off to N.Y.U. last fall and Ms. Stabiner stayed home in Los Angeles, she anticipated rediscovering her own rhythms -- taking time for lunches with friends, perhaps, or writing into the early evening. Instead she found that the pattern that began as an adaptation to her life as a mom was hard to break. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]