Still owing more than $17,000 to the Parent-Teacher Association she stole from for two years, Providence Hogan, a former PTA treasurer at Public School 29 in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, was taken back into custody on Wednesday after she failed to make scheduled payments.

Ms. Hogan pleaded guilty in 2011 to embezzling $82,000 while she was the treasurer of the PTA, which serves one of Brooklyn’s most sought-after elementary schools. She used the money to help shore up her failing Boerum Hill spa business in Brooklyn, cover her rent and pay for fertility treatments. As part of a plea agreement, she returned $50,000 in 2011 and has since paid back more in installments, but is still short about $17,700, according to the Brooklyn district attorney’s office.

“The judge felt that she would come up with the money if she was in jail,” Ms. Hogan’s lawyer, Stephen Flamhaft, said.

He said Ms. Hogan would be released next week. Ms. Hogan could still face the full sentence of two to six years if she does not make the full reimbursement by January 2014. Even if she does, she will be on probation for five years.