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Policy committee forwards family-engagement Title I plan and multiple policy updates to full board
Summary
At its Jan. 12 meeting the Kutztown Area School District Policy & Curriculum Committee reviewed a Title I family-engagement compact, debated whether classroom volunteering language should read 'expected' or 'required,' and voted to forward Policy 918 and several other policy revisions to the full board for consideration.
The Kutztown Area School District Policy & Curriculum Committee on Jan. 12 voted to send a set of revised policies to the full board, including Policy 918 (family engagement/Title I plan) after a focused discussion about parent participation language and monitoring requirements.
Mr. Pyle, who joined the meeting online to present the Title I family-engagement compact, described the document as a district playbook for federal-program requirements and school-level activities, noting that Kutztown Elementary currently qualifies for Title I supports and that the plan includes distributing the Title I plan in writing and providing language-access services. "Right now, we have Kutztown Elementary that is, qualified as our title 1 programming," he said, summarizing the compact and the on-site activities that support parent engagement.
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