Student Handbook - DeKalb County Schools

DeKalb County Schools: Title I LEA Plan• Components of a Targeted Assistance program;• State and local assessments;• Requirements for Title I, Part A;• Ways parents can monitor their children’s progress and work with educators to improve theperformance of their children, and• Ways parents can participate in decisions relating to the education of their children.2. The District and Local School parent involvement programs, to the extent feasible and applicable,provide materials and training such as (but not limited to) the coordination of literacy trainingfrom other sources to help parents work with their children to improve their children’sachievement and direct training in the areas outlined in the previous item.3. To the extent feasible and appropriate, the DCSS Title I program collaboratively coordinates andintegrates parent involvement with the state funded Pre-K, Kindergarten, Prevention Intervention,Exceptional Education, Professional Development, Parent Advisory, and Technology Resources.5. Additionally, to the extent feasible, appropriate roles for community-based organizations andbusinesses in parent involvement are collaboratively developed with the DeKalb Partners inEducation department, to include (but not limited to) the provision of opportunities fororganizations and businesses to work with parents and schools and encouraging the formation ofpartnerships between elementary, middle and secondary schools and local businesses that includea role for parents and other opportunities such as life skills training, family crisis intervention, andcommunity education opportunities.6. The DCSS, to the extent appropriate and feasible, maintains system wide opportunities for parentsto learn about child development and child rearing beginning at birth that are designed to helpparents to become full partners in the education of their children. The opportunities include but arenot limited to Parent Resource Centers, the Systematic Training for Effective Parenting Program,Parent Assuring Student Success (Passport), Take Home Technology, Parent Cluster meetings,and Instructional Fairs. Local schools are encouraged to implement activities that are appropriate,needed and/or of interest to their participating parents.7. Because of the number of international families within DCSS and their increasing participation inTitle I activities, the DeKalb Title I Program ensures to the extent possible to provide informationrelated to schools, parent programs and meeting and other activities of participating children in thelanguage used in the home. Full opportunities for the participation of international parents whohave limited English proficiency and parents with disabilities are ensured including but not limitedto providing information and school profiles in a language and form such parents understand to theextent feasible and appropriate.8. The development of training activities of teachers, principals and other educators may involveTitle I parents when feasible to improve the instruction and services to Title I students.9. DCSS Title I may provide literacy training for parents if all other reasonably available fundingsources for literacy activities have been exhausted.10. DCSS Title I office or schools may pay reasonable and necessary expenses that parents incur byparticipating in school-related meetings and training sessions where appropriate and allowablesuch as transportation and childcare.