2014 Tennessee Code
Title 49 - Education
Chapter 6 - Elementary and Secondary Education
Part 70 - Parent Educational Participation Act
§ 49-6-7009 - Parent involvement report cards -- Incentives for parents to self-evaluate.

(a) Schools in the pilot project shall issue to parents whose children are in kindergarten through grade three (K-3) blank parent involvement report cards, when the children are given their report cards.

(b) Each parent whose child is in the pilot project shall self-evaluate the parent's involvement in the child's education and assign to himself or herself a grade of excellent, satisfactory, needs improvement or unsatisfactory on each of the following:

(1) The parent's response to requests by the school or the child's teachers for meetings or communication;

(2) The parent's efforts in ensuring that the child completed homework assignments, was prepared for tests and otherwise was academically ready to learn;

(3) The parent's efforts in ensuring the child's physical preparation for school; and

(4) The parent's efforts in ensuring the child was on time for school and was absent only when excused.

(c) The report card shall also contain space in which the parent can report in writing on other efforts by the parent to be involved in the parent's child's education and to express the means by which the parent intends to address areas that the parent has evaluated as less than satisfactory or to ask for help in improving the parent's involvement.

(d) The achievement school district and the schools in the pilot project shall create appropriate incentives to encourage parents to self-evaluate and return the parent involvement report cards to the schools.