Parents Right to Know: Title I Schools
Parents Right to Know Letter (English)
Parents Right to Know Letter (Spanish)
Elementary and Secondary Education Act requires all LEAs to notify
parents of all children in all Title I schools that they have the right to request
and receive timely information on the professional qualifications of their
children’s classroom teachers. This notice must be sent at the start of each
school year. The notice does not itself contain the teacher information; it
simply tells parents the types of information they may request.
At a minimum, if a parent requests it, LEA/school must report:
• Whether the teacher has met state qualifying and licensing criteria for
the grade levels and subject areas in which the teacher is teaching;
• Whether the teacher is teacher under emergency or other provisional
status through which state qualification or licensing criteria have been
waived;
• The baccalaureate degree major of the teacher and any other graduate
certification or degree held by the teacher, including the field of
discipline of the certification or degree; and
• Whether the child is provided services by paraprofessional and, if so,
their qualifications.
In addition, if a child is assigned, or taught by, a teacher who is not “highly
qualified” for four or more consecutive weeks, the parents must receive
timely notice.
These and other communications with parents must be in an understandable
and uniform format and, to the extent practical, in a language the parents can
understand. According to ED guidance, if there is no other way to provide
information, it should be provided in oral translation.
Requests must be in writing to the principal.
This applies only to Title I schools.