NCLB Title I, Part A Parent Notification.ppt

NCLB Title I, Part A  Parent Notification Idaho SDETitle I Director’s Meeting September 15, 2008 Cathryn Gardner, Senior Program Advisor Northwest Regional Comprehensive Center Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory Non-regulatory Guidance USDOE: /policy/elsec/guid/edpicks.jhtml?src=ln /programs/titleiparta/parentinvguid.doc What we will cover today… Notification about LEA Improvement Notification about School Improvement [SI] SI and School Choice Supplementary Education Services [SES] Corrective Action Restructuring Notification about LEA and School Parent Involvement Policies What we will cover today…2 Parents’ right to know – teacher and paraprofessional qualifications Parents’ right to know – non-highly qualified teachers Title I-A Annual Parent Meeting How must LEAs and Schools communicate in general? Provide information to parents of students participating in an: Understandable and uniform format, including alternative formats upon request ‘to the extent practicable’ in a language parents can understand LEA Improvement SEAs notify parents that LEA has been identified for improvement Annual Report Card SEAs disseminate to parents and public information on corrective actions taken by SEA School Improvement SI and School Choice The letter MUST contain: LEA shall promptly provide to a parent or parents) an: explanation of what the identification means how the school compares in terms of academic achievement to other elementary schools or secondary schools served by the LEA and SEA the reasons for the identification; School Improvementcont… an explanation of what the school is doing to address the problem of low achievement; an explanation of what the LEA or SEA is doing to help the school address the achievement problem; an explanation of how the parents can become involved in addressing the academic issues that caused the school to be identified; and an explanation of the parents option to transfer their child to another