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Humphreys County Schools Parents’ Right to Know
In order to be better informed, Humphreys County Schools wishes parents to be aware of the following parental rights under the Title I Improving Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged Act: Parental Involvement (In a school-wide program McEwen Elementary and Waverly Elementary) · Parents must be involved in the planning, review and improvement of the program and writing of the School Improvement Plan. · A parent involvement policy consistent with the federal law must be developed. · The policy and activities must be designed to increase parental involvement and awareness. · The school must provide individual student academic results and an interpretation of those results to the parents of students participating in academic assessments. · The school must include activities to ensure that students who experience difficulty attaining the proficient or advanced levels of academic achievement standards will be provided with effective, timely additional support including measures to 1. Ensure that those students’ difficulties are identified on a timely basis; and 2. Provide sufficient information on which to base effective assistance to those students. · An elementary school must include plans for assisting preschool students in the successful transition from early childhood programs, such as Even Start, Head Start, IDEA preschool or State-run preschool programs, to the school-wide program. Parents’ Right to Know: (McEwen Elementary and Waverly Elementary) · At the beginning of each school year, a local education agency that receives federal funds must notify the parents of each student attending a Title I school that the parents may request information regarding the professional qualifications of the student’s classroom teachers and the system will provide, at a minimum, the following: 1. Whether the teacher has met State qualification and licensing criteria for the grade levels and subject areas in which the teacher provides instruction. 2. Whether the teacher is teaching under emergency or other provisional status through which State qualification or licensing criteria have been waived. 3. The baccalaureate degree major of the teacher and any other graduate certification or degree held by the teacher, and the field of discipline to the certification or degree. 4. Whether the child is provided services by paraprofessionals and, if so, their qualifications. · A school that receives Title I money must provide each parent: 1. Information on the level of achievement of their child in each of the State academic assessments required under law. 2. Timely notice that the parent’s child has been assigned, or has been taught for four or more consecutive weeks by, a teacher of a core academic subject who is not classified as highly qualified under State/Federal law. · The local education agency and the school must provide the notice and information required under this section: 1. In a uniform and understandable format, including alternative formats upon request; and 2. To the extent practicable, in a language parents can understand. |
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