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 PUBLIC LAW 107-110-^AN. 8, 2002 115 STAT. 1461 "(F) the number of students and schools that participated in public school choice and supplemental service programs and activities under this title; and "(G) beginning not later than the 2002-2003 school year, information on the quality of teachers and the percentage of classes being taught by highly qualified teachers in the State, local educational agency, and school. "(5) REPORT TO CONGRESS.— The Secretary shall transmit annually to the Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate a report that provides national and State-level data on the information collected under paragraph (4). "(6) PARENTS RIGHT-TO-KNOW.— " (A) QUALIFICATIONS. —At the beginning of each school Notification. year, a local educational agency that receives funds under this part shall notify the parents of each student attending any school receiving funds under this part that the parents may request, and the agency will provide the parents on request (and in a timely manner), information regarding the professional qualifications of the student's classroom teachers, including, at a minimum, the following: "(i) Whether the teacher has met State qualification and licensing criteria for the grade levels and subject areas in which the teacher provides instruction. "(ii) Whether the teacher is teaching under emergency or other provisional status through which State qualification or licensing criteria have been waived. "(iii) The baccalaureate degree major of the teacher and any other graduate certification or degree held by the teacher, and the field of discipline of the certification or degree. "(iv) Whether the child is provided services by paraprofessionals and, if so, their qualifications. "(B) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.— In addition to the information that parents may request under subparagraph (A), a school that receives funds under this part shall provide to each individual parent— "(i) information on the level of achievement of the parent's child in each of the State academic assessments as required under this part; and "(ii) timely notice that the parent's child has been assigned, or has been taught for four or more consecutive weeks by, a teacher who is not highly qualified. "(C) FORMAT. —The notice and information provided to parents under this paragraph shall be in an understandable and uniform format and, to the extent practicable, provided in a language that the parents can understand. "(i) PRIVACY. —Information collected under this section shall be collected and disseminated in a manner that protects the privacy of individuals. "(j) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.— The Secretary shall provide a State educational agency, at the State educational agency's request, technical assistance in meeting the requirements of this section, including the provision of advice by experts in the development

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