Parents’ Right to Know

Parents’ Right to Know

Their Child’s and School’s Achievement

Right to Know Child’s Achievement

• At the beginning of each school year, SCES will provide each parent a copy of their child’s ARMT and SAT-10 scores along with a letter explaining the scores. If you need additional assistance in understanding these reports, please set up a meeting with your child’s teacher of the school counselor.

Right to KnowPersonnel

Qualifications• You have the right to request

information concerning your child’s teacher. A notebook is located in the office for you to review the qualifications of your child’s teacher.

You have the right to know:

Whether the teacher has met state qualification for

the grade and subject she/he teaches;

Whether the teacher is teaching under emergency or

provisional credentials because the state has

waived normal qualifications;

The teacher’s college major and any graduate certification or degree and the discipline in

which it was taken; and

Whether paraprofessionals provide services to the child, and if so, their qualifications.

In addition, if at any time your child has been assigned to and has been taught by a teacher who has not met the

state’s criteria for being considered highly qualified for a period of time of 4 or more weeks, you must be

notified in writing in a timely manner.

Right to Know for Parents of Limited-English Proficient

Children• Parents have the right to

information concerning their child’s placement in a language instruction program, and they have the right “to opt out” of any placement. In any school using Title I funds for language instruction the school must provide the following information within 30 days of the beginning of school (or within 2 weeks of the child’s program placement):

The reason for identifying the child as LEP;

The child’s level of English proficiency, how it was determined, and

the “status” of the child’s achievement;

The instructional methods of the program

in which the child is participating;

How the program will meet the needs of the

child;

How the program specifically helps the

child learn English; and

The specific exit requirements for the

program.

If a LEP child is also disabled, the parental

notification must include information on how the language instructional

program meets the objectives of the child’s

LEP.

Notification for Parents of Children Attending Schools Not Making

Progress

Parents have the right to know whether their child’s school is making adequate yearly progress, and if it is not, what they can do about it. If a school has been identified as being in “school improvement” status, parents will be notified of the following:

What the identification means and the reason for

it;

What the school is doing to address the problem;

What local and state authorities are doing to

correct the problem; and

How parents can become involved in

addressing the academic problems that caused the school to be identified in

the first place

If a school fails to make adequate yearly progress

for two or more years, parents must be told about

options to transfer their child to another public

school or to obtain supplementary educational

services.