Letter to Families 

Title I School Parent Involvement Policy

Argos Community Schools intends to follow the parental policy guidelines in accordance with the Section 1118 of Title I, as amended by Section 1010 of the Every Student Success Act: 

Policy Guidelines

• Convene an annual meeting(s) in fall. 
• Explain the requirements and the rights of the parents to be involved (seen within compact)
• Offer a flexible schedule of meetings. 
• Involve parents in an organized, ongoing, and timely way to plan, review and improve programs such as: 
  • Parental Involvement Policy
  • Schoolwide Policy
• Provide the parent of participating students with: 
  • Timely Information- teachers will contact parents to report interim progress. 
  • Description and explanation of the curriculum to be used. 
  • When the test results are ready to send home, parents will be given an explanation about the tests and how to intercept the results of academic assessments used to measure student progress. 
  • Proficiency levels that students are expected to meet. 
  • An explanation of where to find the Indiana Academic Standards and/or a link to that website. 
  • Opportunities for decision-making related to the education of their children with teachers can happen through Old Gold meetings. 
  • Coordinating and integrating, as appropriate, parent involvement with Head Start and public preschool programs. Kindergarten teachers meet with preschool teachers about expectations for kindergarten entry. Staff meets with parents during Kindergarten Round-Up.
  • Ensuring, to the extent possible, that information sent home is in a language that parents can understand. The only foreign language used at ACS is Spanish. A bilingual IA is available for translating information, as well as translators can be arranged for meetings. 
• Respond to any parent suggestions as soon as practically possible. Include a School-Parent Compact, which is a written agreement of what schools and parents are each supposed to do to help students achieve. 
• Provide other reasonable support for parental involvement at parents' request. 
  • Individual conferences with parents are held for need beyond the ones addressed above

Any comments indicating parents' dissatisfaction with the school Title I program must be collected and submitted along with the Title I Application for Grant to the Indiana Division of Compensatory Education.

Argos Community Schools Title I Parent Compact 

Email: ttolliver@argos.k12.in.us

Phone: 574-892-5139 ext: 2209