(a) Student strategy. — The superintendent of the local board of education along with the staff of each school shall develop an assistance program at each school for at-risk students performing below the Standard set by the State Board of Education. The Standard shall include the results of the required assessment program adopted by the State Board of Education with emphasis on students who are found to be at one or more grade levels below the prescribed norm. The local board of education shall budget at least one hundred dollars ($100) per student so identified to be expended on tutorial assistance programs including, but not limited to, after-school, Saturday school, or summer school, or any combination of these programs. These funds may be budgeted from state or federal funds. However, federal funds already budgeted for at-risk students may not be counted toward the minimum one hundred dollars ($100) requirement set aside to be expended for at-risk students as defined in this chapter. In addition, these funds may be expended for any of the following purposes: (1) Programs to encourage at-risk five-year olds to attend an approved preschool program. (2) Programs to identify at-risk students in the first grade. (3) Programs to ensure strict enforcement of truancy laws. (4) Programs to create alternative or disciplinary schools in which children who consistently exhibit behaviors or patterns of behaviors that interfere with the learning environment of other students would be placed and would be provided counseling and instruction in basic skills. (5) Programs to encourage parental involvement of parents of at-risk children.

Guide for schools that contains a wealth of information on how to engage parents through meetings and activities.

The goal of this policy is to establish a course of action that will support the development, implementation, and continuing evaluation of a parent involvement policy and program in every school.