We Help Schools Get Parents Involved!
Every school has a goal to increase parental involvement and student participation, and federal law even mandates part of the process. For instance, federal law requires that all parents have access to school information and decision-making processes involving their children. CSG recognizes that parents who speak little or no English have a hard time exercising that right. Therefore, CSG offers schools simultaneous-interpretation equipment to ensure parents have every opportunity to get involved in their child's education.
It's been well documented that when parents become involved with their child's education, the child experiences greater success and increased achievement. All parents want their child to succeed, but most parents who speak little or no English face a high barrier - the language barrier. CSG's simultaneous-interpretation equipment removes this obstacle.
CSG products can be used in a variety of ways in and out of the classroom, from field trips, play productions, and special education classrooms, to school board meetings, parent teacher conferences, PTA meetings and graduations.
The TALK AND LISTEN KIT® is extremely affordable and has a successful track record in public schools across the country. In fact, the California Association for Bilingual Education not only recommends and endorses the TALK AND LISTEN KIT®, it is the only interpretation product used by CABE.
The U.S. Supreme Court held (1) that discrimination on the basis of language proficiency is discrimination on the basis of national origin under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and (2) that treating people with different needs in the same way is not equal treatment. Lau v. Nichols, 414 U.S. 563 (1974)
Q. How must SEAs, LEAs and schools communicate with parents in general?
A. SEAs, LEAs and schools must provide information to parents with limited English proficiency of students participating in Title I, Part A programs in an understandable and uniform format, and, "to the extent practicable," in a language parents can understand.
Q. What is meant by providing information to parents with limited English proficiency, "to the extent practicable," in a language parents can understand?
A. This means if written translations are not practicable, it is practicable to provide information to limited English proficient parents orally in a language that they understand.
Q. How must an SEA, LEA and school communicate with limited English proficient parents to ensure meaningful participation in Title I, Part A?
A. SEAs, LEAs and schools must take the necessary steps to ensure that communications with limited English proficient parents are as effective as communications with other parents. Those steps must furnish appropriate auxiliary aids and services, when necessary, to afford a parent who is limited English proficient an equal opportunity to participate in, and enjoy the benefits of, Title I, Part A programs, services, and activities, including the parental involvement provisions.
Source: U.S. Dept. of Education: Non-Regulatory Guidance |
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