Parent's Right to Know

Parents may requests information regarding the professional qualifications of a student's classroom teachers, including:

• Whether the teacher has met State qualifications and licensing criteria for the grade levels and subject areas in which the teacher provides instruction.
• Whether the teacher is teaching under emergency or other provisional status through which state qualification or licensing criteria have been waived.
• The baccalaureate degree major of the teacher and any other graduate 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.
• Information on the level of achievement of the parent's child in each of the State academic assessments as required under this part.