Parent's Right-to-Know
Empowering Parents through Information: Title I and Student Progress
Board Policy 203.2 Title I – Parent’s Right-to-Know
In accordance with the requirement of Federal law, for each school receiving Title I funds, the School shall make sure that all parents of students are notified that they may request, and the Board will provide the following information on the student’s classroom teachers:
- whether the teacher(s) have met the State qualification and licensing criteria for the grade levels and subject areas they are teaching;
- whether the teacher(s) is teaching under any emergency or provisional status in which the State requirements have been waived;
- the undergraduate major of the teacher(s) and the area of study and any certificates for any graduate degrees earned;
- the qualifications of any paraprofessionals providing services to their child(ren).
In addition, the parents shall be provided:
- information on the level of achievement of their child(ren) on the required State academic assessments;
- timely notice if the student is assigned to a teacher who is not “highly qualified” as required, or if the student is taught for more than four (4) weeks by a teacher who is not highly qualified.
The notices and information shall be provided in an understandable and uniform format, and to the extent practicable, in a language the parent(s) understand.
20 U.S.C. 6311; 34 C.F.R. Part 200 et seq.
See Appendix 203.2-A Parent’s Right-to-Know letter; Appendix 203.2-B Letter to Parent Regarding Instruction Provided by Non-Highly Qualified Teacher.
