NASD Federal Programs Update

• NASD Title Programs Overview Video
• Title Programs: What to Expect at Your Child’s School
  
• To Review at Your Convenience
  
• Updated NASD Equity Plan
  
• Anything else I need to know?
  
• Federal Programs Stakeholder Survey
  

Back-to-School events, and school Title I meetings, are brilliant opportunities to get to know your child’s school community and staff!

During these events, NASD schools review and conduct revisions to (2) planning documents that are required for every Title I school. They include each school community’s:

• School-Parent Compact

• School Parent Engagement Policy

Parents are invited and encouraged to assist in this process when they attend.

Additionally, after being reviewed and revised, these planning documents will be made available electronically here and on both the Federal Programs Pages for the district and each school respectively.

Parents that are unable to attend their student’s back-to-school events or Title I meeting will be able to view and provide stakeholder feedback on them at that time.

Required by school districts that run Title Programs, the Equity Report is designed to measure the effectiveness of a district’s hiring, retention, and assurance that students in the most in need communities are provided experienced and appropriately certified educators at the same rate as their peers.

The 2022-2023 NASD Equity Report has been reviewed and revised by NASD over Summer 2023 and is ready for community review. Parents and caregivers are encouraged to review the assessment. Questions, points of clarification and input on challenges, courses of action, etc. can be posed to Ben Ratkiewicz at bratkiewicz@nasd.k12.pa.us.

NASD parents are required by federal law to be notified by their child’s school if an educator, who is not appropriately state certified, has been teaching your child for (4) consecutive weeks or more.

If this occurs, building principals from your child’s school will be sure to send a communication out in a timely manner. A template of that document is available here.