No Child Left Behind Act

September 1, 2005

Dear Parent:

In January 2002, the federal No Child Left Behind Act reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act was signed into law by President Bush. The law requires that school districts notify parents of your right to know the professional qualifications of your child's teacher and teaching assistant (if applicable). You have a right to request information regarding the qualifications of your child’s teacher and paraprofessionals working with your child. Requested information may include:

• Whether the teacher has met New York State qualification and licensing criteria for the grade and subject area in which the teacher is providing instruction.

• Whether the teacher is teaching under emergency or other provisional status through which New York State qualification or licensing criteria have been waived.

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

• Whether the child is provided services by paraprofessionals and, if so, their qualifications.

Monticello Central School District makes every effort to hire certified and highly competent teachers. On occasion, a certified teacher may not be available and we may hire a teacher who is non-certified but is in the process of becoming certified. In such cases that your child is being taught for more than four weeks by such a person, we are required to inform you of that circumstance.

To request information, please send a written request to my office at the address listed below:

Eileen P. Casey, Superintendent
237 Forestburgh Road
Monticello, NY 12701

Sincerely,

Eileen P. Casey
Superintendent of Schools