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SDLA Compliance Resource

Complete the Title III EL and Immigrant Student Annual Online Reports

A program-and-data-owner review of the state online reporting forms, source counts, program implementation, and final submission evidence.

  • Title III
  • English Learners
  • Annual Reporting
Date(s)August 27–October 10, 2026
Applies toLEAs receiving or participating in applicable Title III English Learner or Immigrant Student subgrants

In Plain Language: Open the assigned state online reports, identify each requested program and data element, reconcile responses to current source records, obtain program-owner approval, and submit by October 10.

Why this matters

The report is not clerical confirmation. It connects program implementation and student information to state/federal oversight; unsupported answers can conflict with CARS, CALPADS, expenditure, or local program records.

Primary ownership

Primary owner: Title III/federal programs administrator. Handoff partners: EL/immigrant program leads, CALPADS/data staff, fiscal, private-school/consortium contacts, superintendent designee, and records staff.

From Title III report access to a submitted online response: the SDLA ITO workflow

Each reported field needs an authoritative source and an owner before submission. This SDLA ITO (Input, Transformation, Output) graphic shows how report access, the field list, and CALPADS, program, and fiscal records become the field-to-source crosswalk, the support files, and the submitted response with confirmation.

SDLA ITO: eleven steps from report access, the field list, and CALPADS, program, and fiscal records, through field inventory, source reconciliation, and program and fiscal review, to the field-to-source crosswalk, the support files, and the submitted response with confirmation.
Read down each column, then move to the next: Input identifies what to collect; Transformation covers field inventory, source reconciliation, and program and fiscal review; Output covers the field-to-source crosswalk, the support files, and the submitted response with confirmation. Report between August 27 and October 10, 2026.

Open the full-size workflow graphic

Operational workflow

  1. Confirm access, applicable reports, subgrant/consortium status, contacts, and deadline.
  2. Export or inventory every field and assign its authoritative local source and owner.
  3. Reconcile student/program responses with CALPADS and fiscal/program records; document variances.
  4. Obtain program and fiscal review, submit, and save confirmation plus a final response copy.

Implementation pathway

Access
Field inventory
Source reconciliation
Owner approval
Submit and retain

Evidence to retain

  • Access/assignment evidence
  • Field-to-source crosswalk
  • Program and student support files
  • Review/signoff
  • Submitted response and confirmation

Official guidance and help

Source review completed August 30, 2026. Verify current federal and California requirements, CDE instructions, local policy, pupil-level records, and live reporting-system status before acting.