Procedural Safeguards

Ask five people and you might easily get five different answers, including at least one response of, “Huh?”

The term Procedural Safeguards sounds rather legalistic, formal, and maybe a little forbidding. When it comes to education, what or who needs to be safeguarded? Children? Parents? Teachers? Schools? In this instance, Procedural Safeguards are a set of requirements to ensure that children with disabilities are provided with a free appropriate public education, according to the standards and practices defined by the IDEA (i.e. special education) and its regulations.

Stated in another way... Procedural Safeguards serve as an umbrella or security blanket of educational rights and responsibilitiesfor children with disabilities and their parents. The Burlington-Edison School District also operates beneath the umbrella of IDEA’s procedural safeguards.

The Procedural Safeguards linked below are a resource to help both parents and educators have a common understanding of how to work together toward the service of our child.