Child Development Centers, Chapter 7 and the clocks Wyoming borrows
Wyoming’s Chapter 7 Rules adopt IDEA and 34 CFR Part 300 whole, supervised by the WDE Special Education Programs Division. Preschool is where Wyoming differs: a regional Child Development Center under the Department of Health serves the child until the district takes over at five. Start with the dates in your file: the day the school received your written request, the day you signed consent, and the date on the district’s latest notice.
Wyoming’s laws, rule by rule
The Chapter 7 Rules, statewide
Ch. 7 §§1(b), 2(a)Chapter 7 covers ages three through twenty-one and makes every federal IDEA regulation bind each district, Part B money or not.
WDE supervises every district under it; a federal protection is a Wyoming rule.
Who qualifies, and how
Ch. 7 §4(c)(i), (d)(iv)One listed category, and a disability that “adversely affects” schooling so the child needs special education; Developmental Delay reaches ages three through nine.
Each local board chooses whether to adopt that category; Form E-3 records both findings.
Asking, consenting, Form E-2
Ch. 7 §4(b)(i), (b)(i)(D)Either side may ask for an evaluation; a district that refuses “must provide written notice to the parent,” and your consent starts it.
Consent is Form E-2, refusal is Form G-2; the table’s sixty days run from your E-2 signature.
Removals and Form G-3
Ch. 7 §6(e); Safeguards, 34 CFR 300.530(e)Wyoming hands discipline to the federal sections; a removal for conduct that changes placement gets a manifestation review inside ten school days.
Form G-3 records that review; ask first for the Form G-2 that announced the removal.
WDE’s three dispute doors
Ch. 7 §7(a)–(c)WDE resolves state complaints, offers mediation on “any matter arising under Part B of the IDEA,” and hears due process requests.
Each route has its own WDE form, all filed with the Dispute Resolution Coordinator in Cheyenne.
The Child Development Centers
W.S. 21-2-703(b)(i), 21-2-704The Department of Health’s division sees that preschoolers “receive services through the regional developmental preschool system” until a child five by August 1 becomes the district’s.
Your CDC writes the first IEP and the district inherits it in the kindergarten year; ask who holds it.
What the rule says
The state wrote it this way:
“All provisions under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act 2004 (IDEA) … apply to each political subdivision in Wyoming, regardless of whether the political subdivision received any federal IDEA Part B funds.”
Chapter 7 Rules, §2(a)
Every federal protection is Wyoming law too, and the state can be asked to enforce it.
The deadlines Wyoming sets
School days and calendar days count differently, so read the unit in every row.
| What is being counted | By when | How it is counted |
|---|---|---|
| Evaluation and eligibility decided | 60 days | Your signed Form E-2 is day zero; the federal rule names no school-day unit, so weekends count.Ch. 7 §4(b)(i)(B), 34 CFR 300.301(c) |
| Records you asked to see | 45 calendar days | From your request, and sooner if an IEP meeting or hearing comes first.Safeguards notice, 34 CFR 300.613 |
| Manifestation review on Form G-3 | 10 school days | Ten school days after the removal decision; the review asks whether the disability drove the conduct.Safeguards notice, 34 CFR 300.530(e) |
| WDE decides a written complaint | 60 calendar days | Sixty calendar days after WDE receives it, on a violation no older than one year.Safeguards notice, 34 CFR 300.152–153 |
| District sits down on a hearing request | 15 calendar days | Fifteen calendar days from the district receiving your request; the resolution period ends thirty calendar days after that receipt.Safeguards notice, 34 CFR 300.510 |
How a child gets an IEP in Wyoming
Principal plus SPED office
Put your child’s name and the word evaluation in one message to the principal and the SPED office.
Sign Form E-2
The Notice and Consent for Evaluation starts the count; date it and keep a copy.
Read Form E-3
Wyoming’s Evaluation Report and Eligibility Determination names category and need; circle any score nobody has explained.
The evaluation request letter writes step one for you, in the words a district answers.
WDE Special Education Programs Division — Cheyenne’s Special Education Programs Division supervises districts and Child Development Centers and takes complaints through its Dispute Resolution Coordinator.
If the school says no
No Wyoming rule clocks a request’s answer; a second dated letter asking for Form G-2 or E-2 measures silence.
- Request the records behind a G-2 the same day; they are owed inside forty-five calendar days.
- Cheyenne’s Dispute Resolution Coordinator takes the Request for Complaint Investigation; write in the rule and the day it slipped.
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.
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Where this comes from
- Chapter 7 Rules, Services for Children with DisabilitiesThe rule quoted above.
- WDE Notice of Procedural Safeguards, 2025The dispute clocks, verbatim.
- Wyoming Statutes, Title 21Chapter 2, Article 7: the preschool handoff.
- The federal evaluation rule (34 CFR 300.301)The floor every state builds on.