No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 expands parents’ vital role in their children’s education.

The law holds Title I schools more accountable than ever for helping all children succeed. If students in Title I schools do not make yearly progress in their schoolwork, NCLB gives parents two powerful tools: greater choice over the schools their children attend and extra help for struggling students.

NCLB gives parents more information, more options and more help, than ever before. But where can parents go to find out about the law? How can learn what their rights are? How can they know the right questions to ask? Who can help them get the information they need – in parent-friendly language – so they can make the best choices for their children’s education?

Parent Information and Resource Centers (PIRCs) can help. With funding from the U.S. Department of Education, more than 80 PIRCs are working to inform and educate parents, family advocates, educators, community organizers, faith-based activists and others committed to educational success for all students, especially low-income, minority, and English language learning students.

Click on FIND YOUR PIRC to contact a PIRC. Visit the PIRC website featured here to see what a PIRC can offer you!

The Parent Information and Resource Centers are funded through a discretionary grant program of the U.S. Department of Education Office of Innovation and Improvement Parent Options and Information (OII). For more information on OII click here.

For more information on parent options and supplemental services click here. For more information about charter schools, click here.