PUBLIC LAW 103-382—(XJT. 20, 1994
108 STAT. 3537
"(11) address how the school will determine if such
needs have been met; and
"(vii) are consistent with, and are designed to
implement, the State and local improvement plans,
if any, approved under title III of the Groals 2000:
Educate America Act.
"(C) Instruction by highly qualified professional staff.
"(D) In accordance with section 1119 and subsection
(a)(5), professional development for teachers and aides, and,
where appropriate, pupil services personnel, parents, principals, and other staff to enable adl children in the school
to meet the State's student performance standards.
"(E) Stratejjies to increase parental involvement, such
as family literary services.
"(F) Plans for assisting preschool children in the transition from early childhood programs, such as Head Start,
Even Start, or a State-run preschool program, to local
elementary school programs.
"(G) Measures to include teachers in the decisions
regarding the use of assessments described in section
1112(b)(1) in order to provide information on, and to
improve, the performance of individual students and the
overall instructional program.
"(H) Activities to ensure that students who experience
difficulty mastering any of the standards required by section 1111(b) during the course of the school year shall
be provided with effective, timely additional assistance,
which shall include—
"(i) measures to ensure that students' difficulties
are identified on a timely basis and to provide sufficient
information on which to base effective assistance;
"(ii) to the extent the school determines feasible
using funds under this part, periodic training for teachers in how to identify such difficulties and to provide
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assistance to individual students; and
"(iii) for any student who has not met such standards, teacher-parent conferences, at which time the
teacher and parents shall discuss—
"(I) what the school will do to help the student
meet such standards;
"(II) what the parents can do to help the student improve the student's performance; and
"(III) additional assistance which may be
available to the student at the school or elsewhere
in the community.
"(2) PLAN.— (A) Any eligible school that desires to operate
a schoolwide program shall first develop (or amend a plan
for such a program that was in existence before the date of
enactment of the Improving America's Schools Act of 1994),
in consultation with the local educational agency and its school
support team or other technical assistance provider under subsections (c)(1) and (e) of section 1117, a comprehensive plan
for reforming the total instructional program in the school
that—
"(i) incorporates the components described in paragraph (1);
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