Parental Right to Information About Teachers

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act, most recently reauthorized as the Every Student Succeeds Act, states that parents in Title I schools have the right to request certain information about their child’s teachers. The information that you have a right to request about your child’s teacher is:

• Whether the teacher has met state qualifications and licensing criteria for the grade levels and subjects the teacher is teaching.
• Whether the teacher is teaching under emergency or other provisional status through which state qualification or licensing has been waived.
• The baccalaureate degree major of certification or degree held by the teacher, and the field of discipline of the certification or degree.
• Whether the child is provided services by paraprofessionals and, if so, their qualifications.

At Neabsco Elementary School, we are extremely proud of our teachers and paraprofessionals, and are happy to provide you with any of the information above pertaining to your child’s teacher(s). If you have such a request, please call the school at 703-670-2147 and ask for the information you are interested in.

For more information, visit the PWCS Title I webpage.