Procedural Safeguards for All Participants
What are procedural safeguards?
Procedural safeguards are listed in IDEA in order to protect children and their parents. The law guarantees the following for the families of individuals with disabilities:
-The right to examine all educational records.
-The right to have an impartial hearing and impartial hearing officer.
-The right to receive certain prior notices.
-The right to be afforded mediation.
-The right to be accompanied by an attorney.
-The right to have a state-level appeal if a hearing has been conducted by a local education agency.
Public Law No. 94-142 goes into more detail. The procedural safeguards law also contains protections for all parties--parents, students with and without disabilities, and school personal--in order to make school a safe place.
How can families participate?
Know your rights under IDEA. The school must notify you if they are changing your child's education plan or refusing to change it. If families file a complaint or dissent there must be conflict resolution. Parents have a right to due process hearings over the school's proposal or refusal to initiate or change the identification, evaluation, proposed IEP or portion thereof, the implementation of the IEP, educational placement, or the provision of a free appropriate public education.(http://dpi.wi.gov/sped/dueproc.html)
Procedural safeguards are listed in IDEA in order to protect children and their parents. The law guarantees the following for the families of individuals with disabilities:
-The right to examine all educational records.
-The right to have an impartial hearing and impartial hearing officer.
-The right to receive certain prior notices.
-The right to be afforded mediation.
-The right to be accompanied by an attorney.
-The right to have a state-level appeal if a hearing has been conducted by a local education agency.
Public Law No. 94-142 goes into more detail. The procedural safeguards law also contains protections for all parties--parents, students with and without disabilities, and school personal--in order to make school a safe place.
How can families participate?
Know your rights under IDEA. The school must notify you if they are changing your child's education plan or refusing to change it. If families file a complaint or dissent there must be conflict resolution. Parents have a right to due process hearings over the school's proposal or refusal to initiate or change the identification, evaluation, proposed IEP or portion thereof, the implementation of the IEP, educational placement, or the provision of a free appropriate public education.(http://dpi.wi.gov/sped/dueproc.html)
