4222 Form

__________________ PUBLIC SCHOOLS
_______________________, Connecticut

Annual Notification to Parents Regarding Qualifications of
Title I Teachers and Paraprofessionals

TO:                   [All parents of students enrolled in a Title I Schoolwide or Targeted Assistance Program]

FROM:            [Principal]

Date:                [insert date]

As a parent of a student who is in a Title I Schoolwide or Targeted Assistance Program at _________________________________ school, you have a right under federal law to request information about the professional qualifications of the teachers who instruct your child and the paraprofessionals, if any, who assist them.  The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 gives you the right to ask for the following information about each of your child's classroom teachers and their paraprofessional assistants, if any:

•  Whether the State of Connecticut has licensed or qualified the teacher for the grades and subjects he or she teaches.

•  Whether the teacher is teaching under an emergency license (letter of authorization) or other provisional status by which state licensing criteria have been waived.

•  The teacher's college major, whether the teacher has any advanced degrees and, if so, the subject of the degrees.

•  Whether any instructional aides or paraprofessionals provide services to your child and, if they do, their qualifications.

If you would like to receive any of this information, please contact me, at ____________________
                                                                                                                   insert phone number
or by writing to my office at: 
                                                 (provide address)

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