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Each school has a School Leadership Team (SLT)
Each district has a District Leadership Team (DLT),
comprised of an equal number of parents and staf_f.
comprised of the Superintendent, representatives from
T_he SLT develops a school’s Comprehensive Educa-
District Presidents Council, Title-I District Parent
tional Plan aligned with the school budget. School
Committee, UFT, CSA, DC37, and others. T_he DLT
Leadership Teams typically have between 10 and 17
reviews each school’s Comprehensive Educational
members.
Plan and develops educational priorities for the
district. T_he DLT also provides guidance and
assistance to School Leadership Teams.
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All parents of students receiving Title I
targeted assistance or in a Title I schoolwide
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program are eligible to join their school’s Community and Citywide Education Councils
Title I Parent Committee or Council. T_hese (C&CECs) represented each of the 32 school districts
organizations give parents a voice in how their and 5 boroughs. T_hey were responsible for reviewing
school is spending its Title I funds. Title-I is and evaluating schools’ instructional programs,
federal aid provided to schools in an ef_fort to approving zoning lines, advising the Chancellor and
improve the academic achievement of disad- holding meetings at least every month with the
vantaged youth. Attendance at Citywide Title superintendent and the public at-large to discuss the
I meetings increased from an average of 32 state of the schools in the district. Each council
participants per meeting in 2007-08 to 60 consisted of nine elected parent volunteers and two
participants per meeting in 2008-09. appointed members.

F G
OFEA helped produce the Department’s annual “Family Guide”, which is distributed through schools to all families at
the beginning of the school year. T_his resource provides families with the basic information they need to access and
understand the services available to their children at school. T_his includes what their children are learning, how to check
in on their children's academic progress, how to choose and enroll at a new school, and useful contact information. T_he
guide is translated to make it accessible to non-English speaking parents. All versions are available online at:
http://nyc.gov/schools/ParentsFamilies/NYCFamilyGuide.
G E L G
OFEA partnered with the Division of Teaching and Learning to create the “Great Expectations Learning Guides” for
grades K-8, describing what children should know by the end of each grade. T_he guide is of_fered in nine languages
(English, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, Korean and Haitian Creole) and is available at:
http://nyc.gov/schools/Academics/Great+Expectations.

O A U B
OFEA’s “About Us” brochure was created in 2008-09 to explain parent leadership opportunities. T_he intention of the
brochure was to succinctly clarify the leadership structure within the NYC public school system, from the individual
school level to the citywide parent engagement and leadership structure.
R I S E N
“R.I.S.E” electronic newsletter was created by OFEA in order to promote district wide conversations about news and
events occurring in individual New York City public schools.
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