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COMPENSATORY  EDUCATION

(Title I)

The Superintendent shall pursue funding under Title I, Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged, of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, to supplement instructional services and activities in order to improve the educational opportunities of educationally disadvantaged or deprived children.

All schools, regardless of whether they receive Title I funds, shall provide services that, taken as a whole, are substantially comparable.  Teachers, administrators, and other staff shall be assigned to schools in a manner that ensures equivalency among the District's schools.  Curriculum materials and instructional supplies shall be provided in a manner that ensures equivalency among the District's schools.

Parents and pupils of private schools who are eligible for services as residents within the District shall be provided services on an equitable basis in accordance with 20 U.S.C. 6320 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

Title  I  Parental  Involvement

The District maintains programs, activities, and procedures for the involvement of parents/guardians of students receiving services, or enrolled in programs, under Title I.  These programs, activities, and procedures are described in District-level and School-level compacts.

District-Level Parental Involvement Compact.  The Superintendent shall develop a District-Level Parental Involvement Compact according to Title I requirements.  The District-Level Parental Involvement Compact shall contain:

●  The District's expectations for parental involvement;

●  Specific strategies for effective parent involvement activities to improve student academic achievement and school performance; and

●  Other provisions as required by federal law. 

The Superintendent shall ensure that the Compact is distributed to parents/guardians of students receiving services, or enrolled in programs, under Title I.

School-Level Parental Involvement Compact.  Each school principal shall develop a School-Level Parental Involvement Compact according to Title I requirements.  This School-Level Parental Involvement Compact shall contain:

●  A process for continually involving parents/guardians in its development and implementation;

●  An explanation of how parents/guardians, the entire school staff, and students share the responsibility for improved student academic achievement;

●  An explanation of the means by which the school and parents/guardians build and develop a collaborative relationship to help children achieve the state's high standards; and

●  Other provisions as required by federal law. 

Each school principal shall ensure that the Compact is distributed to parents/guardians of students receiving services, or enrolled in programs, under Title I.

Adopted:  date of Manual adoption

LEGAL REF.: 
A.R.S. 
15-341
20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq., No Child Left Behind