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WAC 392-172A-05010
WAC 392-172A-05010 is cited in Washington's Notice of Special Education Procedural Safeguards for Students and Their Families (October 2023) under the heading "Prior Written Notice". What follows is the notice's own text under that heading, quoted verbatim from the captured source (tools/packets/washington-packet.txt), including the PDF text layer's line-wrap artifacts, which are reproduced rather than corrected. The notice cites the section as printed below. The section's own text, as the Washington State Legislature publishes it in Chapter 392-172A WAC, is not captured here and is listed on the state page as capture pending. All dates on this page are quoted from the source, not a deadline calculation performed for you.
As the notice states it
Heading, as printed: "Prior Written Notice"
Citation line, as printed: "34 CFR §300.503; WAC 392-172A-05010"
"Your school district must provide you with information in writing about important decisions that affect your child’s special education program. This is called a prior written notice (PWN) and it is a document that reflects decisions that were made at a meeting or by the district in response to a request made by you. The district is required to send you a prior written notice after a decision has been made, but before implementing the decision. These are decisions that are related to proposals or refusals to initiate or change the identification, evaluation, placement, or provision of a free appropriate public education (FAPE) to your child. A prior written notice must include: • What the district is proposing or refusing to do; • An explanation of why the district is proposing or refusing to take action; • A description of any other options considered by the individualized education program (IEP) team and the reasons why those options were rejected; • A description of each evaluation procedure, assessment, record, or report used as a basis for the action; • A description of any other factors relevant to the action; • A description of any evaluation procedure the district proposes to conduct for the initial evaluation and any reevaluations; • A statement that parents are protected by the Procedural Safeguards described in this booklet; • How you can get a copy of this Notice of Special Education Procedural Safeguards booklet; or include a copy of this Notice of Special Education Procedural Safeguards booklet if one has not been provided to you; and • Sources for you to contact to get help in understanding these Procedural Safeguards. Examples of when you will receive a prior written notice are: • The district wants to evaluate or reevaluate your child, or the district is refusing to evaluate or reevaluate your child. • Your child’s IEP or placement is being changed. • You have asked for a change and the district is refusing to make the change. • You have given the district written notice that you are revoking consent for your child to receive special education services. Prior written notice must be written in language understandable to the general public and provided in your native language or other mode of communication that you use, unless it is clearly not feasible to do so. If your native language or other mode of communication is not a written language, the district must take steps to ensure that: (1) the notice is translated orally or by other means in your native language or other mode of communication; (2) you understand the content of the notice; and (3) there is written evidence that requirements under (1) and (2) have been met."
On this site
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Source
Notice of Special Education Procedural Safeguards for Students and Their Families (PDF), ospi.k12.wa.us; October 2023; retrieved Sep 13, 2026.
Change log
Sep 29, 2026 · Record created. Built by tools/render-citations.py from tools/packets/washington-packet.txt (capture of Sep 13, 2026): one record per section number the notice prints in full as WAC 392-172A-nnnnn; a citation printed as a range makes one record keyed on its first number, titled with the range as printed; a section cited under two headings carries both. Text is quoted, not summarized. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter, reviewed 2026-09-29. Corrections on the record in this log: hello@fieldassembly.net.