This guide addresses provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), including rights, roles, and responsibilities that offer parents and community leaders voice in public education. The guide highlights ways to use the NCLB to strengthen public voice and increase community and parental involvement in school- and district-level operations and decisions; identifies areas of NCLB that require or provide for community and/or parental involvement in Title I and Title II; describes the scope and requirements for each area of community and parental engagement; translates legislative language into understandable terms, recommending actions for parents and/or communities; provides a formatted training tool for parent-teacher and town meetings; and identifies areas in the act that are silent about community and/or parent engagement, but where there may be legal loopholes allowing parents and/or communities to exercise leadership and take initiative. Topics include state and local applications; SEA and LEA parental involvement policies; parent-school compacts; SEA and LEA report cards and assessment data; teacher, principal, and paraprofessional quality; parents' right to know; schools identified as needing improvement, corrective action, or restructuring; districts identified as needing improvement and corrective action; language instruction for limited English proficient and immigrant students; and education of homeless students. (SM)