NCLB MAIN TOPICS

	School Accountability
	School Choice
	Supplemental Educational Services
	Title I Schools and Parent Involvement
	Parental Notification Rules under NCLB

Title I and the
School-Parent Compact

The School-Parent Compact is a requirement of Title I, Section 1118, and describes: 1) The School’s responsibility to meet the state’s student academic achievement standards> and 2) Ways in which parents will be responsible for supporting their children’s learning, including:

	monitoring attendance, homework completion, and television watching
	volunteering in their children’s classrooms
	participating, as appropriate, in decisions relating to the education of their children and positive use of extracurricular time

The School-Parent Compact addresses the importance of communication between teachers and parents on an ongoing basis. including:

	Parent/teacher conferences
	Frequent reports to parents on children’s progress
	Reasonable access to staff
	Opportunities to volunteer/participate in children’sclasses
	Observational classroom activities

Download the Home-School Compact Tip Sheet

See also:

The Written Parent Involvement Policy

12 Tips for Parent Involvement

1)	Take your child to school on the first day.
2)	Let your child know that school is important. Be sure to ask questions about homework, and set up a quiet place for your child to work.
3)	Read everything that is sent home from school—report cards, homework assignments, school lunch plans, and vacation and bus schedules. Show your child that you are well informed.
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No Child Left Behind -
Parental Notification Rules

A Parent’s “Right-to-Know” — Teacher Qualifications

Local school districts receiving Title I funds must notify parents at the beginning of each school year that they may request and obtain information from the district about qualifications of staff instructing their children in Title I schools. Information must include:

Whether the teacher has met state qualification and licensing criteria for the grade levels and subject areas taught
Whether the teacher is teaching under emergency or other provisional status
The baccalaureate degree major of the teacher and any other graduate certification
Whether their children are provided services by paraprofessionals and, if so, their qualifications

Parental Notification of Not “Highly Qualified”Teachers.

The local school district must ensure that TitleI schools give timely notice to parents that their children have been assigned or have been taught for four or more consecutive weeks by a teacher who is not highly qualified.

Parental Notification: Individual Student Achievement

he local school district must ensure that Title I schools provide parents with information on the achievement level of their children on the statewide assessments as soon as is practicably possible after tests are taken.

Parental Notification: School Choice

Under No Child Left Behind, school districts are required to notify parents if their child is eligible for school choice because his or her school has been identified as needing improvement, corrective action or restructuring. Parents must be notified no later than the first day of the school year following the year for which their school has been identified for improvement. Parents can be notified by:

letters sent to parents
newsletters
posters
websites
phone calls
all information must be in a language that parents can understand

School choice is offered as an option to parents in the event their child is attending a school that is "persistently dangerous" or has been the victim of a violent crime while on school grounds.

Parental Notification: Supplmental Educational Services

Local education agencies are required to provide annual notice to parents of eligible children about the availability of services and information on the approved providers. Parents can be notified by:

letters sent to parents
newsletters
posters
websites
phone calls
all information must be in a language that parents can understand

Parental Notification: LEP (Limited English Proficiency) Programs

Under TitleI and itle III parental notification requirements, local school districts must ensure that LEP parents are notified no later than 30 days after the beginning of each school year or within two weeks of placement in a language instruction educational program. LEP parents must be notified of: