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SDLA Compliance Resource

CALPADS EOY 1 Certification Deadline

A formal certification checkpoint for approving reconciled EOY 1 reports while preserving the amendment-period correction plan.

  • CALPADS
  • EOY 1
  • Data Certification
Date(s)July 16, 2027
Applies toLEAs reporting program participation, incidents, cumulative enrollment, absence/Attendance Recovery, RFEP, homeless and immigrant counts, special education, SWD postsecondary outcomes, and expanded learning

In Plain Language: Certify only after authorized program owners reconcile pupil-level detail and totals. Preserve an amendment log for corrections between certification and final close.

Why this matters

The consolidated EOY 1 combines domains formerly spread across multiple submissions, making cross-program reconciliation essential.

Primary ownership

Primary owner: CALPADS administrator with attendance, discipline, program, EL, homeless, expanded learning, special education/SELPA, and school owners. Certification owner: authorized LEA certifier with SELPA review/approval at the required stage.

From reconciled EOY 1 reports to LEA certification: the SDLA ITO workflow

Certification follows owner sign-off, and it leaves the amendment period open for corrections. This SDLA ITO (Input, Transformation, Output) graphic shows how dated CALPADS reports, source control totals, and the data owners' sign-offs become the dated rosters, the variance log, and the certification evidence.

SDLA ITO: eleven steps from dated CALPADS reports, source control totals, and the data owners' sign-offs, through freezing reports, owner sign-off, variance logging, and certification, to the dated rosters, the variance log, and the certification evidence.
Read down each column, then move to the next: Input identifies what to collect; Transformation covers freezing reports, owner sign-off, variance logging, and certification; Output covers the dated rosters, the variance log, and the certification evidence. Certify by July 16, 2027, and keep an amendment log until final close.

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Operational workflow

  1. Freeze dated certification reports and source control totals.
  2. Obtain documented signoff from each data/program owner.
  3. Resolve or explicitly log every material variance and correction plan.
  4. Authorize and complete LEA certification; confirm system status.
  5. Continue amendment monitoring and coordinate SELPA review where applicable.

Implementation pathway

Reports
Owner signoff
Certification
Final evidence

Evidence to retain

  • Dated source/control rosters
  • Error and variance-resolution log
  • Pupil-level and certification reports
  • Program-owner signoffs
  • System certification/approval evidence

Official guidance and help

Source review completed August 30, 2026. Verify the live CDE calendar, current CALPADS/PADC instructions, local source records, required partner approvals, and final posted or certified state before acting.