Know Your Rights

Each child’s maximum potential can best be achieved through a partnership between parents and the education community. To foster active engagement between parents and schools, parents have certain rights and responsibilities. 

Those Rights make up the DOE's Parent Bill of Rights. A link to the the Parent Bill of Rights can be found by clicking the link below.

NYC DOE Parent Bill of Rights

You can find translations of the Bill of Rights  at bottom of the link below.

https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-life/know-your-rights/parents-bill-of-rights

Due Process refers to procedures that, by law, are used to ensure your child with a disability’s rights to a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) and your rights to be involved and have a full understanding of that process. Due process assures that you have;

• The Right to Be Fully Informed
• Translation and Interpretation for Parents
• Consent
• The Right to Participate
• The Right to Challenge
• Mediation
• Impartial Hearing
• The Right to Appeal
• The Right to Have a Parent Member at the IEP Meeting

These items of Due Process make up the Procedural Safeguards that all parents have a right to. For a copy of Procedural Safeguards please click the link below. 

Procedural Safeguards

You can find more information and translations of the Procedural Safeguards  at the bottom of the link below.

https://www.schools.nyc.gov/learning/special-education/help/your-rights