ERIC Number: ED128477
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1975
Pages: 5
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New Legal Requirements for Parent Involvement in Title I Projects.
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC.
Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) supports programs in schools attended by significant numbers of children from low income families who, along with other students, may need this extra help to improve their performance. As a result of recent changes in the law, more parents will now be involved in the planning, development, operation, and evaluation of Title I projects. This document presents the new legal requirements for parent involvement in Title I projects. It begins by describing what Title I now says about parent involvement and presents the new Federal law which will affect the Parent Advisory Council (PAC) membership selection procedures. This law is called the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, commonly named the Buckley Amendment. The Buckley Amendment may prohibit certain procedures that have been used in the post to recruit Title I PAC members. Reports indicate that many practical problems, such as the lack of guidelines for local school districts to follow to establish parent participation, have developed since the Buckley Amendment became law. It is stated that this amendment has created some difficulties in complying with the new parent involvement provisions of Title I, but that ways to obtain consent and identify Title I parents for PAC membership can and should be devised by school systems. (Author/AM)
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Authoring Institution: Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC.
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I; Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act 1974
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