Article 7, Indiana’s special education rules, section by section, counted in instructional days

Indiana’s laws, rule by rule

1. Article 7 and the CCC’s finding

   511 IAC 7-32-92; 7-41

   The CCC finds a student eligible in one of Article 7’s thirteen categories; a related-service need with no special education is out.

   Ask the CCC which measures moved the finding; therapy alone is outside Article 7.

2. Ten instructional days to notice

   511 IAC 7-40-4(d), (e)

   A request to a teacher or principal “may be made verbally or in writing,” and written notice proposing or refusing evaluation follows within ten instructional days.

   A refusal lists every record behind it and how to contest it; June requests wait for school.

3. Fifty days to the CCC

   511 IAC 7-40-5(d); 7-40-4(h)

   Evaluation and the CCC meeting fit inside fifty instructional days of consent, and the consent form offers the report early plus an explaining meeting.

   IDEA counts calendar days to eligibility; Indiana counts only days school is open.

4. Teacher of record, transition

   511 IAC 7-42-8(a); 7-32-97; 7-42-6

   Services begin within ten instructional days of consent to the first IEP; a transition IEP is in effect by grade nine or age fourteen.

   The teacher of record, one named special education teacher, monitors your child’s IEP; IDEA names nobody.

5. The CCC’s manifestation meeting

   511 IAC 7-44-5(a), (b)

   Ten instructional days after a conduct removal decision, the CCC decides whether the behavior “is a manifestation of the student’s disability.”

   An unfollowed IEP makes the behavior a manifestation, and the agency must fix it immediately.

6. Forty days on I-CHAMP

   511 IAC 7-45-1(c), (l); 7-45-3(c)

   A signed complaint reaching back one year draws the division’s report within forty calendar days; hearing requests reach back two years.

   Forty beats the federal sixty; file on I-CHAMP with dates and rule numbers, copying the school corporation.

What the rule says

The state wrote it this way:

“The initial educational evaluation must be conducted and the CCC convened within fifty (50) instructional days of the date the written parental consent is received by licensed personnel …”

511 IAC 7-40-5(d)

Instructional days are days school is open, so a June signature starts a count that waits.

The deadlines Indiana sets

School days and calendar days count differently, so read the unit in every row.

How a child gets an IEP in Indiana

1. Two names on the letter

   Say it to a teacher if you like, then put the same words in writing to the principal.

2. Ask on the consent form

   Two boxes on the consent form matter: one sends the report early, one books an explanation.

3. Read before the CCC

   The CCC decides eligibility and writes the IEP in one meeting; bring the scores to question.

The evaluation request letter writes step one for you, in the words a district answers.

Office of Special Education — I-CHAMP, the department’s portal, takes complaints, mediation and hearing requests; this office answers Article 7 questions.

If the school says no

The written notice is the refusal in Indiana, and a request that drew nothing passed day ten.

• 511 IAC 7-40-4(e) lists what that notice must contain; read it against your letter.
• Send the same request again in writing, naming the person who took the first one.

A refusal arrives in writing under 34 CFR 300.503, naming what was refused and the data behind it.

This page organizes the state’s own words: it does not replace the current rule text, or advice from someone qualified in your state.

Where this comes from

• Article 7, Indiana’s special education rulesThe quoted rule, in full.
• Indiana’s Office of Special EducationWhere Indiana posts guidance.
• How to file a special education complaintThe forty-day clock, and I-CHAMP.
• The federal evaluation rule (34 CFR 300.301)The floor every state builds on.