Section 11503 Of Chapter 16. Programs To Encourage Parental Involvement From California Education Code >> Division 1. >> Title 1. >> Part 7. >> Chapter 16.

. The governing board of each school district shall establish a parent involvement program for each school in the district that receives funds under Chapter 1 of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by the Augustus F. Hawkins-Robert T. Stafford Elementary and Secondary School Improvement Amendments of 1988 (P.L. 100-290). That program shall contain at least the following elements:
  (a) Procedures to ensure that parents are consulted and participate in the planning, design, implementation, and evaluation of the program.
  (b) Regular and periodic programs throughout the school year that provide for training, instruction, and information on all of the following:
  (1) Parental ability to directly affect the success of their children's learning through the support they give their children at home and at school.
  (2) Home activities, strategies, and materials that can be used to assist and enhance the learning of children both at home and at school.
  (3) Parenting skills that assist parents in understanding the development needs of their children and in understanding how to provide positive discipline for, and build healthy relationships with, their children.
  (4) Parental ability to develop consistent and effective communications between the school and the parents concerning the progress of the children in school and concerning school programs.
  (c) An annual statement identifying specific objectives of the program.
  (d) An annual review and assessment of the program's progress in meeting those objectives. Parents shall be made aware of the existence of this review and assessment through regular school communications mechanisms and shall be given a copy upon the parent's request.