Annual Title 1 Parent Meeting

1
Annual Title 1 Parent Meeting

• Slide Presentation
• Fresno Unified School District
• Office Of State and Federal Programs
• Barbara Bengel, Assistant Superintendent

2
Agenda

• What is Title I?
• Goals of Title I
• How are Title I funds allocated to the school?
• Achievement Results
• What services does Title I provide?
• Parent Rights under Title I
• Parent Involvement Policy
• Parent School Compact
• Program Improvement Status

3
Goals of Title I

• Increase academic achievement
• Requires that schools be accountable
• Requires that parents are provided assistance in
  understanding how well their school and their
  child is performing

4
Title I Funds In the Public Schools Federal
Funds

• Allocated on basis of number of students eligible
  for free/reduced price meals
• Title I students get everything all other
  students get plus services from Title I
• Require academic interventions for all eligible
  students
• Require parent input and training

5
Achievement Results

• Refer to Handouts

6
Title I Services at our school

• Refer to Handout

7
Parent Rights

• Annual Title I meeting with input to Title I Plan
• Opportunities to meet regularly as Title I
  Parents
• Be informed of childs progress and expectations
  through
• Annual parent teacher conference to discuss
  childs progress w/ Title I interventions
• Report Cards
• Annual review of assessment data
• Newsletters
• Notification of EL parents required if the EL
  students at their childs school are not meeting
  state targets for proficiency in ELD and content
  standards
• Provide input for site Parent Involvement policy
  and Parent School Compact
• Parent Training and resources funded by Title I
  allocations for parent involvement
• When school is in Program Improvement Status
• Parents can be involved in developing the Program
  Improvement Plan
• Parents may request a School of Choice
• Parents may request Supplemental Educational
  Services (Tutoring)
• School report Card

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The Site Parent Involvement Policy refer to
handout

• Every school in collaboration with parents, must
  prepare a site level parent involvement policy
  for distribution that includes
• The dates, times and topics that parents wish to
  meet and discuss/learn more about
• The way the Site Level Parent Involvement Policy
  is distributed
• The way the District Parent Involvement Policy is
  distributed
• BP 6171 is the district parent Involvement Policy
  and is in the appendix of the Title I Parent
  Handbook

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The School Parent Compact refer to handout

• Developed collaborating with parents, teachers
  and students
• Updated periodically
• NCLB recommends that compacts are standards based
• Distributed w/ site level parent policy
• Does the school/parent compact need to be revised?

10
PI Status

• Refer to Handout