Title I School Parent Involvement Policy

The Title I law requires that each local school have a policy to show how it will fulfill the requirements of the law in four major areas. Each area is listed below with the activities that will be carried out to meet the policy requirements.

PARENT INVOLVEMENT

The school will hold a convenient annual meeting of participants' parents and involve them in the discussion, development, and review of the school policy.

The school will offer a flexible number of meetings, including parent conferences, which will meet family schedules or be scheduled individually as needed.

The school will provide information about the school's participation in the Title I program at an annual fall program in addition to supplying flyers and other information to keep parents aware of Title I requirements and the right to be involved.

The school will send out surveys and provide other meeting opportunities for parents to talk with each other, ask questions, share ideas, and make decisions about their child.

The school will provide parents with student progress reports twice a year.

The school will provide timely responses to parent suggestions made in the planning/ review meetings described above.

The school will coordinate a Parent Advisory Council which will be involved in the planning, review, and improvement of the school's Title I program.

SHARED RESPONSIBILITIES FOR HIGH STUDENT PERFORMANCE

The school will develop, with parents, a written agreement (called a compact) showing school and home responsibilities for student success.

The school will emphasize in the compact how important it is to have regular home-school communications through conferences, progress reports, access to staff, classroom visits and volunteering.

BUILDING CAPACITY FOR INVOLVEMENT

The school will share information with parents about state and local goals, standards and requirements, explanation of the curriculum in use at the school, the forms used to measure student progress, and the proficiency levels related to student performance. This may be in the form of local meetings, newsletters, or other written communications.

The school will assist parents in understanding the State's academic content standards and student achievement standards, local academic assessments, how to monitor student work, how to work with educators to help children do better in school, and how to participate in making decisions about their children's education through workshops and newsletters.

The school will coordinate with Head Start to identify students eligible for kindergarten to make the transition to kindergarten successful.

The school will help parents learn more about raising their children well through newsletters, meetings, State conferences, take-home pamphlets, and a lending library.

The school will encourage parents to take advantage of the literacy program that is available in the county by sending brochures and providing mileage reimbursement for traveling to the annual conference.

The school will provide reasonable support for parental involvement activities such as literacy training and use of technology relating to the education of their children through optional meetings as requested by parents.

ACCESSIBILITY

The school will provide full chances for parents to participate who are limited English proficient or who are disabled.

The school will provide information using language in a form that parents can understand.