The State Education Department and the Regents must support schools by listening and using what we hear, by providing materials such as the Resource Guides at a level of quality that meets local expectations, and by lining up resources to match our expectations. And we should not add more initiatives. Our work notwithstanding, parents are really the ones who set standards for their children. I have written a letter to parents about what they can do and what we are doing and why in the matter of boosting student performance. This is the first of a series of letters about what parents say concern them.
Many school principals send regular parent letters.
It's a good practice. Beginning January 31, any member of the public will be able to get vital licensing and disciplinary information on more than 610,000 professionals in New York by using the Internet. The public will able to check whether a particular professional is currently licensed and whether or not there have been disciplinary proceedings involving that professional during the previous year. The information will be expanded on March 3. This is yet another result of the system improvements achieved by the Office of Professions.