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Rules and Regulations
Requirements (Title I and Title III) Notices Timeline Schools on Improvement Use of Funds
LEA Family Engagement Policy
School Family Engagement Policy
School/Parent-Family Compacts
Building Capacity for Involvement
(Parent Involvement Guidelines can be found in the NCLB & LCP Handbook on P. 173-184)
Districts required to review plan periodically
Schools required to hold regular parent-family meetings
How will the Title I school achieve the following:
Involve parents-families in the planning, review, and improvement of the Title I program (evaluation)
Offer a flexible number of times for family engagement activities
Convene an annual meeting to inform parents-families about Title I
State and Local Report Cards
Status of schools, districts and states in raising student achievement
Disaggregated data, schools on improvement, graduation rate
Available to all parents-families
Available through public means
Provide parents-families with timely information about the Title programs:
Description of the curriculum, the forms of academic assessment used to measure student progress, and the proficiency levels students are expected to meet
Their child’s individual assessment results
Title III notices
“in an understandable and uniform format in a language the parents-
family can understand”
Notice to parents-families
Child is eligible for ESOL and/or Title III services.
Individual Learning Plan for student
Must be provided… Not later than 30 days after start of
school (or within two weeks of being placed in an ESOL program)
In an understandable and uniform format
To the extent practicable, in a language parents- family can understand
Notify parents-families of all children in all Title I schools that they have the right to request and receive timely information on the professional qualifications of their children’s classroom teachers. . .
At the start of each school year Describe the type of information
available
At a minimum: Met qualifying and licensing criteria Emergency or provisional status Degree major Services by paraprofessionals
Additional timely notification (in a Title I School)
If student is assigned or taught by a teacher who is not “highly qualified” for four or more consecutive weeks
The district shall provide: (cont’d)
Educate teachers, principals, and other staff on how to reach out to, communicate with, and work with parents-families as equal partners
Coordination and integration of family engagement activities with Head Start, Early Reading First, preschool programs, and other programs
Understandable communication
The district shall provide:Assistance to parents-families in
understanding the academic standards, assessments, Title I requirements
Information in regard to how parents-families can participate in decisions about the education of their education
Materials and training, such as literacy training and using technology to foster Family Engagement
The district may:
Involve parents-families in the development of training for teachers, principals, and other staff
Provide literacy trainingPay reasonable and necessary
expenses associated with local family engagement activities
Train parents to enhance the involvement of other parents-families
The district may: (cont’d)
Arrange convenient school meetings
Adopt and implement model approaches
Establish a district-wide parent-family council
Develop community involvement
Beginning of School Year (August/September)
Parents Rights to Know Send out in enrollment packet Include in calendar/student handbook Article in local newspaper
Parent Involvement Policy Review periodically
Annual Title I Meeting Description of the school’s curriculum
Forms of academic assessment used to measure student progress
Proficiency levels students are expected to meet
End of School Year (April/May)
Annual Evaluation of the Title I Program(Include parents-families in evaluation)
Schools on Improvement
Review of adequate yearly progress
Detailed notice regarding a school’s identification as in need of improvement
What identification means Reasons for identification How parents-families can be
involved in addressing Parent’s-Family’s options AMAO statement
Action taken to address the problems
What the school is doing
What the district and state are doing
Corrective actions or restructuring plans
Failure to make progress on the AMAOs for any year (no later than 30 days after failure is known)
AMAO = Annual Measurable Achievement Objectives
Translations of some general documents, in several different languages, are available on our website (German, Burmese, Lao, Somali, Spanish, Hmong, Arabic, Vietnamese, Chinese).
http://www.ksde.org/default.aspx?tabid=359
School Choice
All students in schools on improvement
Notice by mail, information through broader means
Beginning of school year Reasonable deadline to respond LEA pays for transportation
Supplemental Services
Offered 2nd year on improvement Eligible students – low income Annual Notice:
Providers within the area Description of Services Assist in decision, if requested
Parents-families choose the provider
Use of Funds
Districts receiving a Title I allocation of $500,000 or more MUST set aside 1% of total allocation.
95% of the set-aside must be distributed to schools.
5% may be kept at the district level.
Parents-families must be included in planning how the funds will be spent – at both the district and the school levels.
District-level uses:
Parent/Family Engagement LiaisonFamily Engagement Resource CenterParenting ClassesELL Classes for Parents-FamiliesGED Courses for Parents-Families
School-Level Uses:
Family Nights (math, reading, etc.) Supplies and materials Child care Light meal
School/Parent-Family Liaison
Parent-Family Resource Area
KPIRC Federally funded resource center Working on a toolkit on the key points of
Family Engagement and how to increase Family Engagement in schools www.kpirc.org 1-866-711-6711 (toll free) (785) 783-2975 (local)
Federal PIRC »http://www.ed.gov/programs/pirc/index.html
