DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
P.O.
SUPTS. MEMO NO. 239
December 9, 2005
INFORMATIONAL
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TO: |
Division
Superintendents |
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FROM: |
Jo Lynne DeMary Superintendent
of Public Instruction |
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SUBJECT: |
Title I Parental
Notification Under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001: Guidance and |
Under the No
Child Left Behind Act of 2001, Title I schools in school improvement,
corrective action, restructuring, or alternative governance are required to
notify parents of their child’s right to transfer to another public school or
receive supplemental educational services (SES). School divisions and schools must ensure that
notices include all required statutory components.
As required
in Section 1116(b)(6) and Section 1116(e)(3)of the No Child Left Behind Act
of 2001, the parental notification for public school choice (PSC) must
contain six components, and the SES notification must contain three
components. Title I schools in Year Two,
or advanced status, of school improvement may combine the required components
for PSC and SES in one notice. This
correspondence should contain eight components as component number six is
required in both letters.
The required components are listed below. Components one through six are required for PSC notifications, and components six through eight are required for SES notifications.
Required
for Public School Choice Notifications
1) Explanation
of what the identification means, and
how the
school compares in terms of academic achievement to other elementary schools or
secondary schools served by the local educational agency and the state
educational agency involved;
2) Reasons
for the identification;
3) Explanation
of what the school identified for school improvement is doing to address the
problem of low achievement;
4) Explanation
of what the local educational agency or
state educational agency is doing to help
the school address the achievement problem;
5) Explanation of how the parents can become involved
in
addressing the academic issues that caused the school to be identified for
school improvement;
Required
for Public School Choice and Supplemental Educational Services Notifications
6)
Explanation of the parents' option to transfer
their
child to another public school (with transportation provided by the agency)
and/or to obtain supplemental educational services for the child;
Required
for Supplemental Educational Services Notifications
7)
The identity of approved providers of those
SES
that
are available within the local educational agency or whose services are
reasonably available in neighboring local educational agencies, including
Web-based providers;
8)
A brief description of the services,
qualifications, and demonstrated effectiveness of each such provider.
A sample parental notification for PSC and SES is
located on the Virginia Department of Education’s Title I Web site at
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/VDOE/Instruction/title1/SESsampleparentintro.pdf.
For questions regarding the statutory requirements for parental notifications, please contact Rita Ghazal, Title I specialist, at Rita.Ghazal@doe.virginia.gov or (804) 225-2904.
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