Parental Involvement Procedures

New Kent County Public Schools’ Title I program strives to promote and develop meaningful parental involvement in the Title I program in consultation with parents of participating children. The Title I program staff will achieve this goal by ensuring that the following objectives are accomplished.


  • Parents will assist in the development of the Parental Involvement Plan.

  • School division administration will provide coordination, technical assistance, and other support to assist Title I schools in building the capacity for strong parental involvement by promoting effective parental involvement activities which focus on improved academic achievement.

  • Title I staff will coordinate parental involvement initiatives with other relevant New Kent County Public School programs.

  • In collaboration with parents, Title I staff will conduct an annual evaluation of the success of the Parental Involvement Policy in improving academic achievement and implement revisions if necessary.

  • The Title I Coordinator will work with school personnel to distribute the Parental Involvement Policy and to insure the involvement of Title I parents in all school activities.

  • The school will hold regular parental involvement events to include at a minimum the events listed below.




School Parent and Family Engagement

Each school served under Title I, Part A, jointly develops with and distributes to parents and family members of participating children a written parent and family engagement policy, agreed on by such parents, that describes the means for carrying out the following:

Annual Meetings and Parent Involvement Events


Each Title I school shall convene an annual meeting, at a convenient time, to which all parents of participating children are invited and encouraged to attend, to inform parents of their school’s participation in Title I, Part A, and to explain the requirements of Title I, Part A, and the rights of parents to be involved;


Parents will be provided with timely information about Title I, Part A, programs;


  • a description and explanation of the curriculum in use at the school,

  • the forms of academic assessment used to measure student progress,

  • the achievement levels of the challenging state academic standards;

  • if requested by parents, opportunities for regular meetings to formulate suggestions and to participate, as appropriate, in decisions relating to the education of their children, and respond to any such suggestions as soon as practicably possible; and

  • if the school-wide program plan under 20 U.S.C. § 6314(b)is not satisfactory to the parents of participating children, submitting any parent comments on the plan when the school makes the plan available to the school board.

    • The annual meeting may be held as a separate meeting during the "Back to School Open House," Parent/Teacher Fall Conference time, or at the Title I teacher's discretion.

    • There shall be multiple Parent Involvement events held at/for each school which focus on parent education for supporting student reading and math skills.


Each Title I school should offer a flexible number of meetings, such as meetings in the morning or evening. Schools may provide, with funds provided under this part, transportation, child care, or home visits, as such services relate to parental involvement; involving parents, in an organized, ongoing, and timely way, in the planning, review, and improvement of Title I, Part A, programs including the planning, review, and improvement of the school parent and family engagement policy and the joint development of the school-wide program plan under 20 U.S.C. § 6314(b), except that if a school has in place a process for involving parents in the joint planning and design of the school’s programs, the school may use that process, if such process includes an adequate representation of parents of participating children;


Parent and Family Involvement in Allocation of Funding

Parents and family members of children receiving services under Title I, Part A, are involved in the decisions regarding how funds provided under Title I, Part A, are allotted for parental involvement activities.