Dear Parents/Guardians,
Scott County Schools receives federal funds for Title I programs that are part of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) for the 2024-2025 school year. Our schools are eligible for a Schoolwide Title I Program, which means schools may consolidate and use funds under Title I, together with other federal, state, and local funds, in order to upgrade the entire education program for all students.
As a parent, you may request information regarding whether professionals are highly effective, including the qualifications of your child’s teachers and paraprofessionals. This includes information about whether your child’s teacher has met state qualification and licensing criteria for the grade levels and subject areas in which the teacher provides instruction; is teaching under emergency or other provisional status through which state qualification or licensing criteria have been waived; is teaching in the field of discipline not of the certification of the teacher; and is teaching alongside paraprofessionals and, if so, the paraprofessional’s qualifications.
Under the Tennessee State Board of Education’s Unsafe School Choice Policy, any public school student who is the victim of a violent crime as defined under Tennessee Code Annotated 40-38-111 (g), or the attempt to commit one of these offenses as defined under Tennessee Code Annotated 39-12-101, shall be provided an opportunity to transfer to another grade-level appropriate school within the district. If a grade-level appropriate alternative is not available within our district, we will attempt to find an appropriate and available option with one of our neighboring districts.
You have the right to be involved in your child’s education. The Scott County Schools have a Family Engagement Plan that is posted on the Scott County School’s Web Site at www.scottcounty.net. Schools are required to hold an annual meeting for Title I parents; offer a flexible number of meetings; involve you in an ongoing manner in the planning, review and improvement of Title I programs; provide you with information about the programs, a description and explanation of the curriculum, forms of academic assessment, and if requested opportunities for regular meetings to discuss the education of your child(ren); and distribute to you a school-parent compact that outlines the responsibilities of each party for improved student academic achievement.
It is your right to inspect third party surveys before they are distributed to students. The district has policies to protect student privacy when surveys ask for certain sensitive information; parental right to inspect any instructional materials; administration of physical examinations or screenings of students; collection, disclosure of personal information about students for the purpose of marketing or selling that information; and the parental right to inspect any instrument used to collect personal information before it is distributed to students. You are to be given annual notice of an adoption or continued use of such policies and within a reasonable period of time after any substantive change in such policies. You must be given notice of the specific or approximate dates during the school year when the following activities are scheduled or expected to be scheduled: activities involving the collection, disclosure or use of personal student information for the purpose of marketing or selling that information; administration of surveys containing requests for certain types of sensitive information; any non-emergency, invasive physical examination that is required as a condition for attendance, administered by the school, scheduled in advance and not necessary to protect the immediate health and safety of students.
If you would like more information regarding any of the above notifications, please contact the Scott County Schools Central Office to speak to Amanda Stevens, Federal Program Director, at 663-2159.
Sincerely,
Bill Hall, Director of Schools