Parents' Right to Know Requirement

Applies to ALL Schools

The local school district must disseminate a blanket statement that any parent can request information about any teacher of their child. Under federal law, parents have the right to know:
  • whether a teacher has met state qualification and licensing criteria for the grade levels and subject areas in which the teacher provides instruction

  • whether a teacher is teaching under emergency or other provisional status through which state qualification or licensing criteria have been waived

  • the baccalaureate degree major of a teacher and any other graduate certification or degree held by the teacher, and the field of discipline of the certification or degree

Teacher qualifications can be accessed at Educator Qualification Search.

(This site does not provide all teacher information to which the parent is entitled)

Parent Notification of Teacher's Non-Highly Qualified Status

In addition to the information that parents may request, a school that receives Title I funds must provide each individual parent a timely notice that the parent's child has been assigned, or has been taught for four or more consecutive weeks by, a teacher who is not highly qualified.

The notice and information provided to parents must be in an understandable and uniform format and, to the extent practicable, provided in a language that the parents can understand. This applies to all teachers teaching core academic subjects in a Title I school, regardless if the school has a school wide or targeted assistance program.