UNITY SCHOOL

PARENT INVOLVEMENT POLICY

Unity School encourages parent involvement as advisors and resource people in accordance with the Lincoln County Board of Education Policy No. 4.502.

Unity School will work with our Federal Projects Supervisor to plan and implement our Title I program according to the guidelines set forth in law which includes, but is not limited to the following:

1. Parent input into the planning, design, and implementation of the Title I program.

2. Meaningful consultation of parents of participating children in the planning, design, and implementation of the Title I program.

3. Organized, systematic, ongoing, informed, and timely consultation in relation to decisions about the program.

4. The involvement of parents through activities and procedures which are of sufficient size, scope, and quality to give promise of substantial progress achieving the required goals.

To ensure that parents of participation children have an adequate opportunity to participate in the planning, designing, and implementing of the Title I program, Unity School shall:

1. Convene an annual meeting, to which all parents of participation children, including migrant students and limited English Proficiency students, must be invited, to explain the programs, activities, and curriculum available under Title I.

2. Provide parents of participation children, including migrant students and limited English Proficiency students, with reports and explanations of their child’s progress.

3. Present opportunities to conduct parent/teacher conferences with the parents of each participation child to discuss the child’s progress, placement, and training methods the parents can use to complete the child’s instruction.

4. Make educational personnel under the Title I program readily accessible to parents.

5. Permit parents of participating children to observe Title I program activities.

6. Provide opportunities for regular meetings with parents to formulate parental input into the program.

7. Provide parents of participating children with a copy of the parental involvement policy as well as timely information about the program.

8. Make parents aware of parental involvement requirements and other relevant provisions of the program.

9. Provide reasonable support for parental involvement activities as parents may request.

10. Coordinate, to the extent possible, parental involvement activities and strategies under other programs.

11. Develop a school-parent-student compact that outlines how parents, the entire school staff, and students will share the responsibility for improved student achievement and the means by which the school and parents will build and develop a partnership to help children achieve standards.

12. Provide information on programs and activities in a language and form that parents understand.

13. Annually assess, through consultation with parents, the effectiveness of the parental involvement program and determine what action needs to be taken, if any, to increase parental participation.