Title 1 Parent Right to Request and FERPA
Parents Right to Know
The 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.
Overview
Please click on the links below to review the Title 1 Parent Right to Request document, and FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act):
FERPA
Read more about FERPA