Parent's Notice of Procedural Safeguards

English and Translated Versions

The PNPS have been updated to include information to meet the requirement of annual notice regarding the school district's use of MassHealth.

• Memo to School Districts — Updated December 18, 2013

• Parent's Notice of Procedural Safeguards — English Version — Updated May 2025

Translated Versions

The Parent's Notice of Procedural Safeguards was updated in May 2025. The changes incorporated into the English version are available in the languages listed below.

• Parent's Notice of Procedural Safeguards — Albanian
• Parent's Notice of Procedural Safeguards — Arabic
• Parent's Notice of Procedural Safeguards — Cape Verdean
• Parent's Notice of Procedural Safeguards — Chinese
• Parent's Notice of Procedural Safeguards — French
• Parent's Notice of Procedural Safeguards — Gujarati
• Parent's Notice of Procedural Safeguards — Haitian Creole
• Parent's Notice of Procedural Safeguards — Hmong
• Parent's Notice of Procedural Safeguards — Japanese
• Parent's Notice of Procedural Safeguards — Khmer
• Parent's Notice of Procedural Safeguards — Korean
• Parent's Notice of Procedural Safeguards — Laotian
• Parent's Notice of Procedural Safeguards — Polish
• Parent's Notice of Procedural Safeguards — Portuguese
• Parent's Notice of Procedural Safeguards — Russian
• Parent's Notice of Procedural Safeguards — Somali
• Parent's Notice of Procedural Safeguards — Spanish
• Parent's Notice of Procedural Safeguards — Ukrainian
• Parent's Notice of Procedural Safeguards — Vietnamese

School districts must take additional steps to ensure that parents have the information that school districts are required by law to provide to them. Districts may need to obtain interpreters or prepare additional translated materials describing the procedural rights of parents and students under IDEA-2004.

Last Updated: January 6, 2026