Procedural Safeguards

PART B

Note: For foreign languages listed below, Braille or CD/DVD/VHS formats contact Wanda Allen, at 573-751-0602. 

Procedural Safeguards are also available from DESE in the following foreign languages: Amharic, Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, French, German, Hindi, Hmong, Khmer, Korean, Kurdish, Romanian, Ruanda, Russian, Rwandan, Sebro Croatian Cyrillic, Sebro Croatian Latinic, Somali, Spanish (see below), Swahili, Urdu, and Vietnamese.

Foreign languages not available from DESE are the responsibility of the district to provide.

English
Updated October 13, 2006

Spanish
Updated January 11, 2007

American Sign Language (ASL)
2007-2008 version

 

When to Provide the Procedural Safeguards:

Prior to July 1, 2005, state and federal regulations implementing the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) required school districts to provide the parent with a copy of procedural safeguards upon each notification of an Individualized Education Program (IEP) meeting. Since July 1, 2005, IDEA and state regulations implementing IDEA, only requires the provision of procedural safeguards statement to be given to the parent one time per school year. In addition to the once a year requirement, they must be given to a parent:

• Upon initial referral for evaluation;
• On the date the decision is made to make a removal that constitutes a disciplinary change of placement;
• Upon parental request for an additional copy;
• And, upon the first occurrence of the filing of a due process hearing request or child complaint, at which time the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) provides the procedural safeguards statement.