Updates have been made to the Notice of Procedural Safeguards and Parent’s Guide to the ARD Process to align with several Commissioner of Education rules and a dyslexia State Board of Education rule that became effective in 2024.
Copies of these resources are being provided by the TEA in collaboration with the Education Service Center (ESC) Region IV print shop, and deliveries should have started arriving in local educational agencies (LEAs) beginning April 14, 2025. The Overview of Special Education for Parents form has not been updated at this time but is included in the delivery LEAs will be receiving. Upon receipt of the updated copies, campuses must no longer distribute the outdated versions and immediately begin to issue the current editions.
On April 14th, these updated documents were published to the SPEDTex and Legal Framework websites. A guidance document has been created for additional information. Additionally, a Summary of Changes to the Notice of Procedural Safeguards and the Parent’s Guide has been added to the Legal Framework resource library.