NCLB Title I, Part A – Parental Involvement
2009-2010 District Monitoring Checklist
(Applicable beginning with 2008-2009 School Year Data)
Date: _________________ District: ___________________________School: _________________________________________________
Principal: ______________________________________________PI Coordinator: _____________________________________________
LDE Monitors: _____________________
Shelia Campbell shelia.campbell@la.gov ; Maggie Brolin margaret.brolin@la.gov 225.342.3031
Does the District meet these Compliance Requirements?
Parental Involvement
1. Do parents participate in the development or review/revision of the District Parent
Involvement Policies under §1112 and in the process of school review and improvement
under §1116? [§1118(a)(2)(A)]
2. Does the district disseminate its Parental Involvement Policy to parents?
[§1118(a)(2)]
3. Does the district provide coordination, technical assistance and other support necessary to
assist schools in planning and implementing effective parental involvement activities to
improve student achievement and school performance? [§1118(a)(2)(B)]
4. Does the district coordinate and integrate parental involvement strategies under §1118 with
parental involvement strategies under other programs, such as Head Start, Reading First,
statewide preschool programs, and Title III language instructional programs? [§1118(a)(2)(D)]
5. Does the district, with the involvement of parents, conduct an annual evaluation of the
content and effectiveness of the parent involvement policy and evaluate and identify barriers
to greater participation by parents (particularly parents who are economically disadvantaged,
disabled, have limited English proficiency, have limited literacy, or are of any racial or ethnic
minority background)? Does the district involve parents in using the evaluation findings to
design strategies for more effective parental involvement, and to revise strategies if
necessary? [§1118(a)(2)(E)]
6. Does the district involve parents in the activities of its schools served under Title I, Part A.?
[§1118(a)(2)(F)]
Documentation/ Evidence/ Technical Assistance
 District PI Policy
 Parent sign-in sheets
 Meeting agendas, Meeting summaries
 Parent/Community communications
 Other: _________________
 Dissemination of PI Policies (Parent, District, School or Title I Handbook, Postage receipts)
 Other: _________________
 Coordination (Collaborative meetings, Professional development, Organized district-wide
initiatives)
Technical Assistance (Log of school-site visits, telephone/email records, letters, memos)
Other: _________________
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 Name district programs: __________________, _________________,
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Joint planning meetings (agendas, sign-ins, meeting summaries)
Shared PI activities
Letters to parents, Memos to staff, Community notices
Other: _________________
PI Evaluation tools (surveys, method of data collection)
Most recent evaluation results
Most recent revisions to PI Policy
Parent communications
Other: _________________
 Activities and sign-in sheets
 Parent/Community communications
 Other: ____________________
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Does the District meet these Compliance Requirements?
7. Are parents informed about services provided by Louisiana’s federally funded Parent
Information and Resource Center-PIRC (Louisiana Promise,520 Olive Street, Suite C-4,
Shreveport, LA 71104, Phone: 318-429-6959 Website: www.lpirc.org? [§1118(g)]
Does the district assist schools and parents in building capacity for involvement as
described in §1118(e)?
(1) Provide assistance to parents in understanding topics such as the
 State’s academic content standards,
 State student academic achievement standards,
 State and local academic assessments,
 Title I requirements,
 How to monitor a child’s progress, and
 How to work with educators to improve a child’s progress.
(2) Provide materials and training to help parents to work with their children to improve
their children’s achievement, such as literacy and technology training.
(3) Educate district and school staff, with the assistance of parents, in the value and utility
of the contributions of parents, and in how to reach out to, communicate with, and work
with parents as equal partners, implement and coordinate parent programs, and build ties
among parents and the school.
(5) To the extent feasible and appropriate, coordinate and integrate parent involvement
programs and activities with other district programs (i.e. Head Start, Reading First, public
preschool and other programs) and conduct other activities, such as parent resource
centers, that encourage and support parents in more fully participating in the education of
their children.
(6) Ensure that the information related to school and parent programs, meetings, and other
activities is sent to the parents of participating children in a format, and to the extent
practicable, in a language that parents can understand.
Documentation/ Evidence/ Technical Assistance
 Parent/Community communication
 Reference in Title I or Parent Handbooks, district PI policy
 Other: _________________
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Topics discussed in District PI Policy
District, Title I or Parental Involvement Handbooks
Title I Meetings, parent sign-in sheets, agendas, meeting summaries, handouts
Parent/Community communications
Other: _________________
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Materials available to parents
Training, sign-in sheets, handouts
Parent/Community communications
Other: _________________
Professional development, agendas, sign-in sheets, handouts
Staff communications, publications
Other: _________________
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Joint meetings (agendas, sign-ins, meeting summaries)
Shared PI activities
Letters to parents, memos to staff, community notices
Other: _________________
Topics discussed in District PI Policy
District, Title I or Parental Involvement Handbooks
Title I Meetings, parent sign-in sheets, agendas, meeting summaries, handouts
Parent/Community communications
Other: _________________
Reservation of Funds [§1118(a)(3)(A)]
1. Does the district reserve not less than 1 percent of its Title I allocation to carry out parental
involvement activities, including promoting family literacy and parenting skills, under Section
1118? (Not applicable if Title I allocation is $500,000 or less)?
 District budget with school reservations for PI
 Other: _________________
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Does the District meet these Compliance Requirements?
Documentation/ Evidence/ Technical Assistance
2. Are the parents of children receiving services involved in the decisions regarding how funds
reserved are allotted for parental involvement activities? [§1118(a)(3)(B)]
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3. Does the district distribute not less than 95% of the reserved funds to schools (with a
comparable amount to private schools)? [§1118(a)(3)(C)]
 District budget with school reservations for PI
 District/School communications
 Other: _________________
Private Schools
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Does the district provide services and activities to participating private school teachers,
families, and children developed pursuant to section 1118? [§1120]
Parent sign-in sheets
Meeting agendas, Meeting summaries
Parent/Community communications
Other: _________________
Description of Title I services for private school students
Description of Title I parental involvement for private school parents
Description of professional development for private school Title I staff, sign-in sheets
Private school/staff communications
Meaningful consultation, sign-in, agenda, meeting summary
Other: _________________
Parents Right-to-Know:
1. At the beginning of the school year, does the district notify parents that they have the right
to request, and the district will provide in a timely manner, information regarding the
professional qualifications of their children’s classroom teachers and paraprofessionals:
 Is the teacher certified in subject and grade level where providing instruction?
 Have certification requirements been waived, and does the teacher have
emergency or provisional certification?
 What are the teacher’s degrees, certifications and fields of preparation?
 What paraprofessionals are providing services to their child and what are the
qualifications of the paraprofessional(s). [§1111(h)(6)(A)(i-iv)]
2. Does the district ensure that notifications and information provided to parents required
under § 1111 is in an understandable and uniform format and, to the extent practicable,
provided in a language that parents can understand? [§1111(h)(6)(C)]
 Parent Handbook, Title I Handbook
 Parent letters
 Other: _________________
 Understandable parent communications regarding the development of school plans and
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District communication
Other: _________________
Reports
1. Does the district disseminate an Annual State Report Card, with all required information, in
a concise and understandable format? [§1111(h)(1)]
 State Report Card
 Method of dissemination
 Other: _________________
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Does the District meet these Compliance Requirements?
2. Does the district disseminate an Annual District Report Card, with all required information?
[§1111(h)(2)]
Documentation/ Evidence/ Technical Assistance
 District Report Card
 Method of dissemination
 Other: _________________
Complaints
Does the district disseminate to parents, students and appropriate private school
officials adequate information about the SEA’s written complaint procedures for
resolving issues of violation(s) of a federal statute or regulation that applies to Title I,
Part A. 34 CFR §200.11(d)
 Complaint procedures
 Method of dissemination
 Other: _________________
PI Requirements for Students with Limited English Proficiency (LEP)
1. Does the district collect a “Home Language Survey” for every new student which elicits the
following:
 Language the child first learned,
 Language used at home,
 Language other than English that the child uses most often?
 Home Language Survey
 Method of administration
 Other: _________________
2. For children identified as having limited English proficiency, does the district provide
parents with timely written notification, including all required components, in a language that is
understandable to the parents? [§1112(g)(1)(A) and (g)(3)]
 Copies of parental notification letters
 Parent communication
 Other: _________________
3. For parents with limited English proficiency, does the district provide important school
communications in an understandable format and, to the extent practicable, in a language
they can understand? [§1118(f)]
 District/School communications
 Individual parent communications
 Other: _________________
4. Does the district implement an effective means of outreach to parents of limited English
proficient students to inform parents of how they can be involved in the education of their
children? [§1112(g)(4)]
 District communications with LEP families
 Describe outreach activities, sign-in sheets, agendas
 Other: __________________
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