PARENT NOTIFICATIONS

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PARENT NOTIFICATIONS

• UNDER NCLB

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What are the Expectationsunder the No Child
Let Behind Act?
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The law requires many different kinds of
information and notices.
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How should these notifications be distributed?

• District and School Websites
• Letters Home
• Local Newspaper
• School Newsletters
• Title I Brochures
• District and School Meetings
• Student Handbooks
• Media
• Note Some notifications have specific
• guidelines about distribution.

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Report Card on Statewide Academic
AssessmentEach year school districts that
receive Title I funds must prepare and distribute
to parents an annual district report card.
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Teacher Qualifications

• Parents have the right to request information
  about the professional qualifications of their
  childs classroom teacher.
• When?
• What?
• How?

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Title I Requirement

• A Title I school must give timely notice that the
  parents child has been taught for 4 or more
  consecutive weeks by a teacher who is not highly
  qualified.

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Individual Achievement on State Assessments
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Limited English Proficient Programs

• School district that uses federal funds to
  provide a language instruction educational
  program for children with limited English
  proficiency must notify parents of their childs
  eligibility for ESL services
• and their rights.

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Schools Identified for Improvement, Corrective
Action, or Restructuring

• The school district must
• Notify Parents
• Explain Identification
• Give Reason for Identification
• Explain What School is Doing to Change
• Explain How District and State will Help
• Explain How Parents Can Become Involved
• Explain Options for Student

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Supplemental Educational Services

• When a school fails to make Adequate Yearly
  Progress (AYP) according to certain statutory
  timetables, the district must make supplemental
  educational services available to eligible
  students in the school.
• Parent notification
• Annual Notice of Services
• List of Approved Providers
• Brief Description of Services
• Qualifications and Effectiveness of
• each Provider

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Parent Involvement

• Each district receiving Title I funds and each
  school served under Title I must jointly develop
  and distribute to parents a written parental
  involvement policy.
• Each Title I school must hold at least one annual
  meeting for Title I parents..
• Develop a school-parent compact.

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Safe and Drug-Free Schools programs

• Districts receiving safe and drug-free school
  program funds must inform and involve parents in
  violence and drug free prevention efforts.
• Parents have the right to withdraw their child
  from these programs.

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National Assessment of Educational Progress(NAEP)

• Parents must be informed if their child has
  been selected to participate in any NAEP
  assessment.
• Parents must be informed of.

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Military Recruiter Access to Student Information

• Parents of secondary school students must be
  notified of their right to restrict their
  childs name, address and telephone number from
  being released to military recruiters without
  prior permission.

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Homeless Children

• Parents of homeless children must be given
  written notification of their childs rights
  regarding their education.
• Transportation
• Educational Services
• Choice of School
• Meals
• Local Liaison and the State Coordinator for
  Homeless Children contacts

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Student Privacy

• Districts must give parents annual notice, at
  the beginning of the school year, about policies
  regarding student privacy and a parents right to
  inspect
• Third Party Surveys before Distribution
• Sensitive Information Surveys
• Instructional Materials
• Administration of Physical Exams or Screening of
  Students
• Personal Information for the Purpose of Marketing
  or Selling

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Waiver Request

• If a school district requests the U.S Secretary
  of Education to waive any provision or regulation
  of NCLB, they must provide notice and inform the
  public.

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21st Century Community Learning Center

• A program or activity funded as part of the 21st
  Century Learning Center provides before and after
  school activities to advance student academic
  achievement.

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Schoolwide Programs

• A district must inform eligible schools and their
  parents of the schoolwide program under which
  eligible schools may consolidate their funds to
  upgrade the educational program of the school.

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