Required Notices

Our district is required to inform you of information that you, according to the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 (Public Law 114-95), have the right to know.

Upon your request, our district is required to provide to you in a timely manner the following information:

• Whether your student’s teacher has met State qualification and licensing criteria for the grade levels and subject areas in which the teacher provides instruction.
• Whether your student’s teacher is teaching under emergency or other provisional status through which State qualification or licensing criteria have been waived.
• Whether your student’s teacher is teaching in the field of discipline of the certification of the teacher.
• Whether your child is provided services by paraprofessionals and, if so, their qualifications.
  
  In addition to the information that parents may request, a building receiving Title 1.A funds must provide to each individual parent:

• Information on the achievement level and academic growth of your student, if applicable and available, on each of the State academic assessments required under Title 1.A

Timely notice that your student has been assigned, or has been taught for four or more consecutive weeks, by a teacher who has not met applicable State certification or licensure requirements at the grade level and subject area in which the teacher has been assigned.

NOTICE

TO ALL EMPLOYEES AND STUDENTS REGARDING DISCRIMINATION AND HARASSMENT

The Tarkio R-I School District is committed to an academic and work environment in which all students and employees are treated with dignity and respect. The District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, age, national origin, ethnicity, or disability or perceived sexual orientation in its programs and activities. Discrimination and harassment of students and employees, whether committed by supervisors, employees or students and regardless of whether the victim is an employee or student, will not be tolerated.

Inquiries, complaints or grievances from students and their parents and employees regarding discrimination and harassment may be directed to:

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Carrie Livengood, High School Principal

312 South 11 th Street

Tarkio , MO 64491

660-736-4118

Other offices dealing with these complaints:

Missouri Commission for Human Rights

Department of Labor & Industrial Relations

P.O. Box 1129 , 3315 W. Truman Blvd.

Jefferson City , MO 65102-3325

(573) 751-3325

www.dolir.state.mo.us/hr

U.S. Department of Education

Office of Civil Rights

Customer Service Team

Mary E. Switzer Building

330 C Street, SW

Washington , DC 20202

(800) 421-3481

OCR@ed.gov

Equal Employment Opportunity Comm.

Robert A. Young Federal Building

1222 Spruce Street

Room 8.100

St. Louis , MO 63103

(314) 539-7800 or (800) 669-4000

www.eeoc.gov

U.S. Department of Justice

950 Pennsylvania Ave., NW

Washington, DC 20530-0001

(202) 353-1555

ASKDOJ@usdoj.gov

PUBLIC NOTICE
 

All responsible public agencies are required to locate, evaluate, and identify children with disabilities who are under the jurisdiction of the agency, regardless of the severity of the disability, including children attending private schools, children who live outside the district but are attending a private school within the district, highly mobile children, such as migrant and homeless children, children who are wards of the state, and children who are suspected of having a disability and in need of special education even though they are advancing from grade to grade. The school district assures that it will provide a free, appropriate public education (FAPE) to all eligible children with disabilities between the ages of 3 and 21 under its jurisdiction. Disabilities include autism, deaf/blindness, emotional disorders, hearing impairment and deafness, mental retardation/intellectual disability, multiple disabilities, orthopedic impairment, other health impairments, specific learning disabilities, speech or language impairment, traumatic brain injury, visual impairment/blindness and young child with a developmental delay.
 
The Tarkio R-I School District assures that it will provide information and referral services necessary to assist the State in the implementation of early intervention services for infants and toddlers eligible for the Missouri First Steps program.

The Tarkio R-I School District assures that personally identifiable information collected, used, or maintained by the agency for the purposes of identification, evaluation, placement or provision of FAPE of children with disabilities may be inspected and/or reviewed by their parents/guardians. Parents/guardians may request amendment to the educational record if the parent/guardian believes the record is inaccurate, misleading, or violates the privacy or other rights of their child. Parents have the right to file complaints with the U.S. Department of Education or the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education concerning alleged failures by the district to meet the requirements of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).
 
The Tarkio R-I School District has developed a Local Compliance Plan for the implementation of State Regulations for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). This plan contains the agency’s policies and procedures regarding storage, disclosure to third parties, retention and destruction of personally identifiable information and the agency’s assurances that services are provided in compliance with the General Education Provision Act (GEPA). This plan may be reviewed at the local school district administrative office.
 
This notice will be provided in native languages as appropriate.