Every school district receiving Title 1 funds is REQUIRED to:
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 Develop, for the school district at large, a written parent involvement policy jointly with parents, agreed on with parents, and distributed to parents and incorporated in the school district's Title I plan that it must submit to the state in order to qualify for Title I funding under section 1112*.
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 Submit to the state at the time that the school district forwards it Title I plan, any comments of parents who find that in their view, the school district's Title I plan is not satisfactory.
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 Include parents in the development of the school district and individual school improvement plans.
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 Conduct an annual evaluation and review of its parent involvement programs that involves parents in an organized, ongoing and timely way that will lead to the:
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 Evaluation of the content and effectiveness of parental involvement policies,
 
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 Assessment of their effectiveness at improving the academic quality of schools served under Title 1,
 
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 Identification of barriers to increased participation in activities that are provided for parents paying close attention to parents who are economically disadvantaged, disabled, have limited English ability, with limited literacy, or are of any racial or ethnic minority background, and,
 
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 Designing more effective strategies for parental involvement, based on the results obtained by the evaluation, which should lead to the revision of the current policy.
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 Provide coordination, technical assistance, and other support necessary to assist participating schools in planning and implementing effective parent involvement activities.
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 Assist individual schools in building greater capacity and expertise in developing strong parent involvement programs.
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 Coordinate and integrate parental involvement strategies under this part with the parental involvement strategies of other programs such as Head Start, Reading First, Even Start, Parents as Teachers, and other school programs.
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 Reserve no less than 1% of its Title I allocation for the implementation of parent involvement programming, which includes the promotion of family literacy and parenting skills. However, if 1% of the agency allocation under the written policy for the fiscal year will be $5,000 or less, then no money is required to be reserved.
Note: Section 1112 pertains to the requirement related to local school district development of Title 1 plans, which stipulates that parents must be consulted in the development of the plan

Title I School Districts and Title I Schools are Jointly REQUIRED to Ensure Effective Involvement of Parents by:
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 Supporting partnerships among each Title I school, parents, and the community to improve student academic achievement.
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 Providing assistance to parents of Title I children served by the school or local educational agency in helping them to understand such topics as:
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 The state's academic content standards and state student academic achievement standards,
 
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 State and local academic assessments, and
 
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 How to monitor a child's progress and work with educators to improve the achievement of their children;
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 Providing opportunities for full participation of parents with limited English proficiency, parents with disabilities, and parents of migratory children, including information and school reports, to the extent practicable, that parents can understand.
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 Providing materials and training to help parents to work with their children at home to improve their children's achievement.
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 Educating teachers, personnel, principals, and others, with the assistance of parents, on the value and utility of parental contributions, and how to reach out and communicate with parents as equal partners, implementing and coordinating parent programs, and building ties between the home and school;
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 Coordinating and integrating parent involvement programs and activities with Head Start, Reading First, Early Reading First, Even Start, the Home Instruction Programs for Preschool Youngsters, the Parents as Teachers Program, and public preschool and other programs, to the extent practicable
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 Conducting other activities, such as parent resource centers, that encourage and support parents in participating more fully in the education of their children;
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 Sending information to parents relating to school and parent programs, meetings, and other activities.
Note: Section 1112 pertains to the requirement related to local school district development of Title 1 plans, which stipulates that parents must be consulted in the development of the plan

School Level Title I Parent Involvement Policies
In developing a local school parent involvement policy, each school that receives Title I funds is REQUIRED to:
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 Jointly develop with, and distribute to, parents of participating Title I children an agreed upon written parental involvement policy,
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 Notify parents of the policy in an understandable and uniform format, and to the extent practicable, in a language that the parents can understand.
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 Make the parental involvement policy available to the local community and update it periodically to meet the changing needs of parents and the school.
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 Hold an annual meeting, at a convenient time, to which all parents of participating children shall be invited and encouraged to attend. The purpose of the meeting is to:
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 Inform parents of their school's participation in development of the parent involvement policy;
 
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 Explain to parents their rights in the development of the policy; and
 
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 Inform parents that they can be involved in approving the parent involvement policy.
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 Offer a flexible number of meetings, such as meetings in the morning or evening, and may provide, with funds provided under this part, transportation, child care, or home visits, as such services relate to parental involvement;
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 Involve parents, in an organized, ongoing, and timely way, in the planning, review, and improvement of programs for parental involvement, including the planning, review, and improvement of the school parental involvement policy and the joint development of the school wide program plan.
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 Provide parents of participating children:
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 Timely information about programs.
 
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 A description and explanation of the curriculum in use at the school, the forms of academic assessment used to measure student progress, and the proficiency levels students are expected to meet; and
 
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 If requested by parents, opportunities for regular meetings to formulate suggestions and to participate, as appropriate, in decisions relating to the education of their children, and respond to any such suggestions as soon as practicably possible;
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 If the school wide program plan under the Components of School Wide Program Plan under Section 1114(b)(2) is not satisfactory to the parents of participating children, submit any parent comments on the plan when the school makes the plan available to the local educational agency .

Title I Schools and Local Education Agency's are encouraged, but not required to assure the following:

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 Involve parents in the development of training for teachers, principals, and other educators to improve the effectiveness of such training;
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 Provide necessary literacy training from funds received under this part if the local educational agency has exhausted all other available sources of funding for such training;
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 Pay reasonable and necessary expenses associated with local parental involvement activities, including transportation and child care costs, to enable parents to participate in school-related meetings and training sessions
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 Train parents to enhance the involvement of other parents
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 Arrange school meetings at a variety of times, and if necessary in places other than the school building, or conduct in-home conferences between teachers or other educators, who work directly with participating children, with parents who are unable to attend such conferences at school, in order to maximize parental involvement and participation
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 Adopt and implement model approaches to improving parental involvement
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 Establish a district wide parent advisory council to provide advice on all matters related to parental involvement in programs supported under this section;
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 Develop appropriate roles for community-based organizations and businesses in parent involvement activities; and
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 Provide such other reasonable support for parental involvement activities as parents may request .