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This policy has been jointly developed and agreed upon by the Clark High School administration, staff, and parents of students served in the school pursuant to Title I.

Community Collaboration

The school’s parent involvement policy developed by administration, parents, and staff will be distributed in an understandable and uniform format and to the extent practicable, in a language parents can understand. The parent involvement policy will also be made available to the community through the activities office.

Advocacy & Decision Making

Clark High School will involve parents in an organized, ongoing and timely way in the planning, review and improvement of Title I programs, school improvement plan and parent involvement policy. Parents will give input during PAC meetings as well as family nights, open houses, both magnet and full school open houses.

Volunteerism

The Educational Involvement Accords were sent home in August 2009. For parents new to the school, the Accords are continually included in the registration packets and completed at registration.

Student Learning/Two‐Way Communication

Clark High School will offer parent involvement activities in the school that will include opportunities for parents to volunteer and be involved in school activities:

  • Staff development and parent education, which will include English Literacy classes for limited English speaking families of Clark High School.
  • Parents to provide home support for their children’s education, which will include truancy and communication classes for parents.
  • Parents to participate in school decision‐making, which include involvement in writing the school improvement plan and attendance at Parent Action Committee Meetings as well as family nights provided by the staff of Clark High School.
  • Effective communication between the school and parents, which includes daily phone calls to parents about absences and daily uploading of grades on Parentlink.

Two‐Way Communication/Community Collaboration

The Clark High School administration and staff will provide assistance to parents, as appropriate, in understanding such topics as the state’s academic content and achievement standards, state and local assessments, the requirements of Title I, how to monitor their student’s academic progress and how to work with school staff to improve the achievement of the student. Clark High School administration and staff will hold Parent Nights.

  • Parent nights will include topics of: truancy, literacy, scholarship, and financial aid; as well as communicate frequently with parents through Parentlink, phones calls, and mailers; while hiring a part‐ time aide to communicate with parents about absences, truancy, and how to help their child at home.
  • Student Council, Student Organization of Latinos, Key Club, National Honor Society will provide free child care during parent meetings, as well as during English Literacy Classes for parents; to provide community collaboration and support.

Parenting

Clark High School will provide materials and training to help parents work with their children to improve the student’s achievement, such as literacy training and using technology as appropriate, to foster parental involvement. CHS will provide access to educational resources for parents to use together with their children. This will include bi‐weekly classes for parents to participate in English Acquisition Classes to help with learning English to supplement their children’s education as well as working towards the goal of obtaining a GED or high school diploma.

Two‐Way Communication

In order to ensure two‐way communication, all information related to school and parent programs, meetings and other activities will be sent to parents in a format and, to the extent practicable, in a language the parents can understand.

Coordination with other programs

The administration will coordinate with other Title I programs to ensure effective communication to meet the needs of students and parents in the community. CHS will work with groups like Adult Education, Community Schools, Metro, City of Las Vegas, local businesses, the community, and Clark County School District on how to best meet the needs of all students and parents of the Clark High School Community.