2020-2021 Title I School-Parent Compact

From the Parental Involvement: Title I, Part A Non-Regulatory Guidance, the Sparta School District and the parents of the students participating in activities, services, and programs funded by Title I, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) (participating children), agree that this compact outlines how the parents, the entire school staff, and the students will share the responsibility for improved student academic achievement and the means by which the school and parents will build and develop a partnership that will help children achieve the State’s high standards.

School Responsibilities

The Sparta School District will:

1.	Provide high-quality curriculum and instruction in a supportive and effective learning environment that enables the participating children to meet the State’s student academic achievement standards.
2.	Hold parent-teacher conferences at least annually in October during which this compact will be discussed as it relates to the individual child’s achievement.  
3.	Provide parents with frequent reports on their children’s progress at least quarterly.  
4.	Provide parents reasonable access to staff for consultation through email, phone, and in person. 
5.	Provide parents opportunities to volunteer and participate in their child’s class and to observe classroom activities when agreed to by teacher and parent.

Parent Responsibilities
We, as parent(s)/guardian(s), will support our children’s learning in the following ways:
•	Monitoring absences and tardiness.
•	Ensuring that home and classwork is completed daily.
•	Monitoring amount of television, social media, and video games children watch.
•	Volunteering in child’s classroom.
•	Participating, as appropriate, in decisions relating to my child’s education.
•	Promoting positive use of my child’s extracurricular time.
•	Staying informed about my child’s education and communicating with the school by promptly reading all notices from the school or the school district either received by my child or by mail and responding, as appropriate. 
•	Serving, to the extent possible, on policy advisory groups, such as being the Title I, Part A parent representative on the school’s School Improvement Team, the Title I Policy Advisory Committee, the District-wide Policy Advisory Council, the State’s Committee of Practitioners, the School Support Team or other school advisory or policy groups.

Student Responsibilities
We, as students, will share the responsibility to improve our academic achievement and achieve the state’s high standards.  Specifically, we will:
•	Do home and classwork every day and ask for help when I need it.
•	Read at least 30 minutes every day outside of school time.
•	Give parents or guardians all notices and information received by me from my school every day.

								
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