Federal Programs
Missouri Department of Elementary & Secondary Education Every Student Succeeds Act Complaint Procedures and Non-Public School Compliant Procedure Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 (Public Law 114-95)
Public Notice
Dear Parent or Guardian:
Our district is required to inform you of certain information that you, according to the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 (Public Law 114-95), have the right to know.
Upon your request, our district is required to provide to you in a timely manner, the following information:
- Whether your student's teacher has met State qualification and licensing criteria for the grade levels and subject areas in which the teacher provides instruction.
- Whether your student's teacher is teaching under emergency or other provisional status through which State qualification or licensing criteria have been waived.
- Whether your student's teacher is teaching in the field of discipline of the certification of the teacher.
- Whether your child is provided services by paraprofessionals and, if so, their qualifications.
In addition to the information that parents may request, a building receiving Title I.A funds must provide to each individual parent:
- Information on the level of achievement and academic growth of your student, if applicable and available, on each of the State academic assessments required under Title I.A.
- Timely notice that your student has been assigned, or has been taught for 4 or more consecutive weeks by, a teacher who has not met applicable State certification or licensure requirements at the grade level and subject area in which the teacher has been assigned.
English Language Learning (ELL)
Limited English Proficiency
A student enrolled in the Harrisonville School District with limited English proficiency (LEP) will be provided effective instruction by dedicated teachers. The student will be encouraged to successfully achieve work in classrooms where the language of instruction is English. As a result, they will be given the opportunity to participate fully in society.
Listed below are three broad goals for LEP students:
- To use English to communicate in social settings
- To use English to achieve academically in all content areas
- To use English in socially and culturally appropriate ways
Contact information
Sarah Enkey
816-380-4131 ext. 3837
sarah.enkey@harrisonvilleschools.org
Title I
Title I is a federally funded program which was enacted to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education and reach, at a minimum, proficiency in challenging state academic achievement standards and assessments. To help students succeed academically, opportunities are provided to meet with a special reading or math teacher. Students are selected to participate in the Title 1 program by a set of multiple criteria.
More information can be found at the DESE Parent and Family Engagement page
Title I Schoolwide Parent Involvement Plan
Harrisonville School District has developed this parent involvement plan with parents, teachers, and staff through a variety of formats including, but not limited to, parent surveys, family events, conferences, and meetings. This plan establishes the expectations for parent involvement with Harrisonville School District, a Title I Schoolwide school(s).
Annually, a Title I information event is held at each elementary school. At this meeting, the principal and staff inform parents of the school’s participation in Schoolwide Title I. Information regarding parent rights, safeguard procedures, complaint procedures, and parent involvement opportunities are discussed.
Each elementary building within the district offers a number of opportunities for parents and families to be involved. These include Parent/Teacher conferences, family events within the school year that focus on math and literacy, PTO meetings, and other school wide events (music programs, art fair, and morning/evening library events).
Harrisonville School District will provide parents timely information about programs and services through the monthly school newsletter, school website, phone communication, email, SIS, Wildcat alerts, text messages, Facebook, and Twitter. To the extent possible, this parent information will be sent in the language parents can understand. The schools provide full opportunities for the participation of parents with limited English proficiency, disabilities, and migrant families.
The district will provide a description and explanation of the curriculum and academic assessments used to measure progress including the expected proficiency levels. This is communicated through parent meetings, parent/teacher conferences, notes home, monthly newsletters from the classroom and school, and SIS parent link.
All students in Kindergarten through fifth grade are eligible to receive academic support utilizing Title I teachers and services in the Harrisonville School District. The school-parent compact outlines how parents, teachers, and students share in the responsibility for improving student achievement. The compact further explains how the school’s responsibility is to provide high-quality curriculum and instruction in a supportive and effective learning environment that enables students to meet the state’s standards. The school-parent compact describes the ways in which each parent will be responsible for supporting student learning and participating in decisions relating to the education of their child/children. The school-parent compact addresses the importance of communication between the teachers, students, and parents on an ongoing basis through conferences, newsletters, and progress reports to parents.
Harrisonville Schools gives parents reasonable access to staff, along with opportunities to volunteer, participate, and observe in their child’s classroom.
This written Parent Involvement Plan shall be distributed to all parents in the Harrisonville elementary buildings in an understandable format and in a language parents can understand. It has been placed on the school website making it available to the local community. This plan has been periodically updated to meet the changing needs of parents and the school. If the plan is not satisfactory to parents, comments may be submitted in writing to the school, the comments will be reviewed, and staff and the elementary schools will actively work to resolve these concerns.
This Parent Involvement Plan is an effort to cover the range of responsibilities and services the Harrisonville School District provides to the parents of its students and to the community.