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New or returning students:
We must establish four things about this situation
The EPES!
Or how to talk SWDS in CALPADS!
- Are they Eligible for IEP? [Y / N] - [Check CALPADS, Check info from IEP team]
- Are they currently Participating? [Y / N] - [Check CALPADS, Check info from IEP team]
- Are they currently Enrolled? [Y / N] - [Check CALPADS, Check info from SIS team]
- Going to Still be participating upon arrival? [ Start Date] - [Check info from IEP team, note the date student started participating.]
But the four things must be compared by the SEDS coordinator in up to three places.
- IEP team information from the field.
- CALPADS information
- SIRAS information
The IEP team can let us know if the current eligible/participation status in CALPADS is accurate or not.
They can confirm what needs to be updated on the MIS page of SIRAS, IEP dates, service changes, etc.
Now that we heard from all three sides, we can say we know the history of the student arriving.
We also know what to set data to if either CALPADS or SIRAS has outdated information.
What CALPADS should be saying, if it isn't already, we may need to get CALPADS fixed.
So even if CALPADS isn't correct at this point, if we know what CALPADS 'should' be saying we can move forward in SIRAS.
We may just have to wait to send data until CALPADS catches up with what we know should be in it.
What SIRAS should be saying, if it isn't already?
Is this student arriving eligible and participating?
SIRAS should have an active record with updated special ed. plan information, and updated meeting dates.
If the student record isn't active already, once we can confirm the MIS is fully updated, make the SIRAS record active.
If the student is arriving eligible but not participating, we can either leave the record inactive if nothing will be done with the record other than staff reviewing the case.
Or if there will be a follow up meeting, we should change the active status from inactive to pending. Do not remove the inactive data!
Once the meeting is closed the record will return to inactive and only a MEET record will be sent if appropriate.
Assuming CALPADS is correct:
Now lets dial in the SIRAS Record for the IEP team based on what is happening.
What to do when new or returning students with disability move into your district and we know they will start participating right away.
- We must check CALPADS first to learn what CALPADS knows (or doesn't know) about this student.
- Then make sure to update the MIS Summary page to represent the overall plan the student is arriving with.
- Then archiving the plan adoption as of the district enrollment date will make the pending record active.
The only reason to use out of state SELPA From:
- If CALPADS has no information about a student who your IEP team already knows to be eligible for IEP.
- AND if the IEP offer of FAPE provided to the District was developed out of State, ONLY THEN can we use SELPA_FROM = Out of State
- Just because the student is 'returning from out of state' is not a justification to use and will generate SWDS0618 most likely.
- (More Info on this)
The assumption moving forward is a student known to already be on IEP moves into your district, so what do we do in Siras?
Onboarding SWDS = 1, 2 or 3, what do we do?
1 RAP Return already participating
CALPADS NOTE:
Student will continue to participate upon enrollment, update MIS and archive plan adoption transaction.
Typically SWDS 1 is already established in CALPADS.
If SWDS 1 is missing in CALPADS either the original district needs to resend the SWDS 1 if it is known, or the local plan adoption archive can be used to send it as of the district enrollment date.
2 RTP Return to participation
SWDS 2 or 3 upon arrival. There is intent to participate again.
CALPADS NOTE:
- Create plan adoption, set to SWDS only, send data. Return to plan adoption record, set report status to Pending to send PLAN and SERV.
- You may need to resend the plan adoption archive as MEET Only if the most recent plan review is not present in CALPADS.
3 SOA Stopped participating on arrival
SWDS 1 in CALPADS. Then stop participating upon arrival at your district.
CALPADS NOTE: -Reportable Inactive Reason from Siras will send the SWDS 2 as of the inactive date for you when archived.
4 WUE Withdrawn upon entry
SWDS 2 or 3 in CALPADS. IEP team reaches out and response back is withdrawal of eligibility.
CALPADS NOTE: -Add new SWDS 4 by making the record have active status = inactive in Siras as withdrawal and archiving it.
5 NCA Not CA based FAPE
SWDS data does not exist in CALPADS but eligibility from Out of State is documented.
CALPADS NOTE: -Use SIRAS Tools to send full set of SWDS, MEET, PLAN and SERV records from MIS Page.
6 CNP Continued non participation
SWDS 2 or 3 in CALPADS. IEP team reaches out and there still will be no participation.
CALPADS NOTE: -Nothing to report unless SWDS 3. If so we send new SWDS 2. We don't replace or change the existing historical SWDS
in any way. We can archive the inactive status on the MIS Page as of date we found out, or enrollment date is also a suggestion for this 'amendment' type archive.
7 NTL [Not currently eligible]
SWDS 4 upon arrival, or no status at all in CALPADS.
CALPADS NOTE: -If a student with this status is referred then there should be an initial evaluation meeting.
8 YCA [Yes CA based FAPE] An initial evaluation was done on paper and hasn't been reported yet to CALPADS.
SWDS data does not exist in CALPADS but eligibility from CA is documented.
CALPADS NOTE: We have to use Plan Adoption archive to build CALPADS history not already reported by a SEDS or converted during the 2023 fall rollover to SWDS. Follow instructions on how to send SWDS, MEET, PLAN and SERV records from the plan adoption.
