Parent Rights

YOUR RIGHTS AS A PRE-K/HEAD START & EARLY HEAD START PARENT

❖ To take part in major policy decisions affecting the planning and the operation of the program.

❖ To help develop adult programs that will improve daily living for you and your family.

❖ To be welcomed in the classroom and any other area of the program.

❖ To choose whether or not you participate without fear of endangering your child’s right to be in the program.

❖ To be informed regularly about your child’s progress in Pre-K/Head

Start and Early Head Start.

❖ To always be treated with respect and dignity.

❖ To expect guidance for your child from Pre-K/Head Start and Early

Head Start teachers and staff which will help his/her total individual development.

❖ To be able to learn about the operation of the program including the budget and the level of education and experience required to fill various staff positions. To take part in planning and carrying out programs designed to increase your skills in areas forpotential employment.

❖ To be informed about all community resources concerned with health, education and the improvement of family life.

❖ A Parenthas therightto inspect child records, amend records, request a hearing to challenge information in the record, right to copy record disclosed to third parties unless the disclosure was for a court that ordered neither the subpoena, its content, nor the information furnished in response be disclosed.