| Toolkit
Documents |
Click
on the
, 
or 
icon to download that version. Help
Tools will be updated,
added or deleted to stay current with the evolving nature of the funding issue. |
| Document |
Description |
| PDF
|
MSW |
Help |
|
|
|
Sample
News Releases (Updated Aug 28,
2007)
Use these models to craft your own message to
focus on how your district is improving student
learning, how to explain AYP and how it fits into
NCLB. |
|
|
|
Sample AYP Staff Letter
Explaining AYP (Updated
Aug 28, 2007)
Model letter to send to school staff explaining Adequate
Yearly Progress; adapt information to your school(s) and
send it before AYP is announced each year or
as soon as possible after AYP is announced.
|
|
|
|
Sample
AYP Parent Letter Explaining AYP Release
(Updated Aug 28, 2007)
Model letter to send to parents informing them about Adequate Yearly Progress rating of their child's school; adapt
it to your situation and send it as soon as possible after
AYP is
announced.
|
|
|
|
Sample
AYP Parent Letter Explaining Highly Qualified Staff (Updated Aug 28, 2007)
Use this sample letter as a model to communicate with parents in Title 1 schools about the qualifications of your teachers. The law requires schools to notify parents in Title 1 schools if their child's teacher doesn't meet the federal definition of "highly qualified staff" within four weeks of when the teacher begins teaching your child.
|
|
|
|
Sample
AYP Parent Letters Explaining Needed Improvement Under AYP
(Updated Aug
28, 2007)
Get ideas from this letter if you must sent letters to
parents with students in schools in the second or third
year of needing improvement under AYP.
|
|
|
|
Sample
Article for School Publications (Updated Aug 28, 2007)
Use this model to explain, in common
English, what NCLB and AYP mean and how they affect your
school. Has AYP Sections for "Title 1 schools
only" and "Non-Title 1 schools."
|
