📢 Interpreter Services & 3rd Party Reimbursement: We Need Your Help

Interpreter services are essential supports for many of our students and families. To ensure these valuable services are accurately logged and reimbursed, we need your help documenting them correctly.

While ECSE teams have already received this guidance, we now need all case managers districtwide to assist in this effort.

Why It Matters

When interpreter services are documented in a student’s IEP or IFSP, it allows our interpreters to log their time appropriately and ensures those services are eligible for 3rd party reimbursement. This supports both compliance and the sustainability of these critical services.

What You Need to Do

1. Document Interpreter Services in the IEP

• If a student benefits from interpreter support (during interventions, IEP meetings, or evaluations), ensure this is clearly stated in their IEP.

• This allows interpreters to record services accurately and helps the district claim reimbursement.

2. Update IFSPs (Birth–3 Staff)

• Before summer, please review and amend IFSPs to include interpreter services where appropriate.

3. Update IEPs (Ages 3–5, Part B)

• If you are planning an IEP amendment soon, be sure to add interpreter services as needed.

• Ensure these services are discussed and documented during the Annual IEP meeting when applicable.
  
  

Need Support?

We’ve attached helpful resources to guide you:

• PDF Instructions: How to log interpreter services
  
  

• Sample PWN Language: Use this when updating IEPs or IFSPs

These steps are aligned with guidance from M & C and General Counsel.

Let’s Work Together

By ensuring interpreter services are accurately documented, you are helping families, supporting our interpreters, and strengthening our systems.

🎉 You're Invited: MPS Special Education Resource Fair

Join us on May 1, 2025
🕔 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM
📍 Center for Adult Learning | Transition Plus
Minneapolis Public Schools Special Education Department & SEAC invite you to attend our Special Education Resource Fair!

🌟 What to Expect

This free, in-person event is open to caregivers, students, staff, and community members interested in learning more about special education services and supports for students from birth through age 22.

Attendees will have access to:

• Helpful resources for navigating special education

• Community-based supports and services

• Opportunities to connect with MPS staff and partner organizations
  
  

📣 Help Spread the Word!

Flyers are available in multiple languages. Feel free to email, post on social media, or print and hang them in your schools or community spaces.

📄 Downloadable Flyers:

1. English

2. Hmong 

3. Somali

4. Spanish

🔗 Learn More

Visit our website for full event details and updates.

We hope to see you there!