Parental Involvement Policy
Meeting the
Requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB)
The Arab City Board of Education believes that the education of today’s youth must be a cooperative venture between parents and educators and that parental involvement contributes significantly to student achievement. Therefore, Arab City Schools, in consultation with parents of children being served under the provisions of Title I of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), shall develop procedures that provide opportunities for parental involvement in the design, implementation, and evaluation of the Title I program. The following activities will be utilized in establishment of these procedures .
1. Each school shall involve parents in an organized, ongoing, and timely way in the planning, review, and improvement of programs, including the school’s parental involvement plans and procedures and schoolwide program plans, if applicable.
2. Each school shall convene an annual meeting to inform parents of their school’s participation in the Title I program and to explain the curriculum in use at the school, the form of academic assessments used to measure student progress, and the proficiency levels students are expected to meet.
3. Each school shall jointly develop with parents of the children being served a school-parent compact that outlines how parents, the school staff, and students will share the responsibility for improved student academic achievement and the means by which the school. And parents will build and develop a partnership to help children achieve the State’s high academic standards.
4. Each school shall implement activities designed to build capacity for strong parental involvement.
5. Each school shall conduct, with the involvement of parents, an annual evaluation of the content and effectiveness of the parental involvement policy in improving the academic quality and use the finding of the evaluation to design strategies for more effective parental involvement.
6. Each school shall coordinate and integrate parental involvement strategies with other programs, as applicable.
7. Each school shall ensure that information related to school and parent programs, meetings, and other activities is sent to parents of participating children in a format and , to the extent practicable, in a language the parents can understand.