Opinion ID: 1161742
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 9

Heading: remediation

Text: This is the third case currently considered in which the litigative process has effectively required a school district and the State of Wyoming to pay for extra-statutory and unjustified educational services based on the student's contention of the School District's extended responsibility past the twenty-first birthday. Since the hearing officer lacked jurisdiction to grant educational services which extend beyond Wyoming's constitutional and statutory authorizations, we find no basis for payment by application of either the stay put provisions of federal law, 20 U.S.C. § 1415(e)(3) (1982 ed. & Supp. IV 1986), or SBE Rule, § 84, Status of Child During Hearings, beyond the date of the issuance of our mandate. Janzen v. Knox County Bd. of Educ., 790 F.2d 484 (6th Cir.1986). Consequently, since DM is now beyond the age of twenty-one years, further obligation for the maintenance of educational benefits will be continued for DM only to the date when our mandate issues in this case. After that time, neither the School District nor the State Board of Education is afforded the obligation or opportunity to continue to expend these funds as if the individual has not yet achieved the age of twenty-one years. Ryan, 764 P.2d 1019 (Wyo. 1988). Stay put and SBE Rule, § 84 end at age twenty-one unless this decision is reversed with supersession of the Wyoming statutes and constitution by federal authority. Reversed and remanded to the district court to enter an order in conformity herewith.