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PUBLIC LAW 107-110-^AN. 8, 2002 115 STAT. 1483 part that fails to make adequate yearly progress, as set out in the State's plan under section 1111(b)(2), by the end of the first full school year after identification under paragraph (1), the local educational agency serving such school— "(A) shall continue to provide all students enrolled in the school with the option to transfer to another public school served by the local educational agency in accordance with subparagraphs (E) and (F); "(B) shall make supplemental educational services available consistent with subsection (e)(1); and "(C) shall continue to provide technical assistance. "(6) NOTICE TO PARENTS.—^A local educational agency shall promptly provide to a parent or parents (in an understandable and uniform format and, to the extent practicable, in a language the parents can understand) of each student enrolled in an elementary school or a secondary school identified for school improvement under paragraph (1), for corrective action under paragraph (7), or for restructuring under paragraph (8)— "(A) an explanation of what the identification means, and how the school compares in terms of academic achievement to other elementary schools or secondary schools served by the local educational agency and the State educational agency involved; "(B) the reasons for the identification; "(C) an explanation of what the school identified for school improvement is doing to address the problem of low achievement; "(D) an explanation of what the local educational agency or State educational agency is doing to help the school address the achievement problem; "(E) an explanation of how the parents can become involved in addressing the academic issues that caused the school to be identified for school improvement; and "(F) an explanation of the parents' option to transfer their child to another public school under paragraphs (1)(E), (5)(A), (7)(C)(i), (8)(A)(i), and subsection (c)(10)(C)(vii) (with transportation provided by the agency when required by paragraph (9)) or to obtain supplemental educational services for the child, in accordance with subsection (e). "(7) CORRECTIVE ACTION.— "(A) IN GENERAL.—In this subsection, the term 'corrective action' means action, consistent with State law, that— "(i) substantially and directly responds to— "(I) the consistent academic failure of a school that caused the local educational agency to take such action; and "(II) any underlying staffing, curriculum, or other problems in the school; and "(ii) is designed to increase substantially the likelihood that each group of students described in 1111(b)(2)(C) enrolled in the school identified for corrective action will meet or exceed the State's proficient levels of achievement on the State academic assessments described in section 1111(b)(3).