20 U.S.C. § 7244: Uses of funds

to engage in activities that will improve student academic achievement, including understanding how parents can support learning in the classroom with activities at home and in after school and extracurricular programs; to communicate effectively with their children, teachers, school leaders, counselors, administrators, and other school personnel; to become active participants in the development, implementation, and review of school-parent compacts, family engagement in education policies, and school planning and improvement; to participate in the design and provision of assistance to students who are not making academic progress; to participate in State and local decisionmaking; to train other parents; and in learning and using technology applied in their children’s education; to develop and implement, in partnership with the State educational agency, statewide family engagement in education policy and systemic initiatives that will provide for a continuum of services to remove barriers for family engagement in education and support school reform efforts; and to develop and implement parental involvement policies under this chapter. having its employees or agents meet with a parent at a site that is not on school grounds; or working with another agency that serves children. no person (including a parent who educates a child at home, a public school parent, or a private school parent) shall be required to participate in any program of parent education or developmental screening under this section; and no program or center assisted under this section shall take any action that infringes in any manner on the right of parents to direct the education of their children.