4130: Parental Involvement

Family Engagement

The superintendent will develop procedures to encourage and support family engagement in education at home, in our schools and communities, and in school governance. Those procedures will recognize the diversity of family structures, circumstances, and cultural backgrounds and respects families as important decision makers for their children’s education.

Title I Parental Involvement

The board of directors adopts as part of this policy the following guidance for parent involvement. The district will:

1. Put into operation programs, activities and procedures for the involvement of parents in all of its Title I schools consistent with federal laws including the development and evaluation of policy. Those programs, activities and procedures will be planned and operated with meaningful consultation with parents of participating children;
2. Provide the coordination, technical assistance, and other support necessary to assist participating schools in the planning and implementing of effective parent involvement activities to improve student academic achievement and school performance.
3. Build the school’s and parent’s capacity for strong parental involvement;
4. Coordinate and integrate Title I parental involvement strategies with parent involvement strategies under other programs, such as Head Start, Reading First, Early Reading First, Even Start, Parents As Teachers, Home Instruction, Preschool Youngsters, or state-run preschools;
5. Conduct, with the involvement of parents, an annual evaluation of the content and effectiveness of this policy in improving the academic quality of the schools served with Title I funds including: identifying barriers to greater participation of parents in Title I related activities, with particular attention to participation of parents with limited English proficiency, parents with disabilities and parents of migratory children; and
6. Involve the parents of children served in Title I, Part A schools in decisions about how the Title I, Part A funds reserved for parental involvement are spent.

Legal References

• 20 USC § 6311 (“No Child Left Behind Act”)

Management Resources

• Policy News, October 2008 Family Involvement Policy
• Policy News, June 2005 Title I Parental Involvement Policy
• Policy News, August 2003 No Child Left Behind Update