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CALPADS error brief · MEET

MEET0377

Special Education Referral Date cannot be greater than the current date
Severity
FATAL error - Must be corrected in order to post the record and/or certify the data.
Error type MEET - Special Education Meetings
Record type MEET

Official CALPADS rule

What CALPADS is rejecting

Special Education Referral Date cannot be a future date.

Focus fields

Fields validated

24.10 - Special Education Referral Date

Recommended correction path

Suggested resolution

Official rule in plain language

Severity: Fatal   Type: Input Validation

Fields validated

  • 24.10 Special Education Referral Date

A scheduled SST, planned referral discussion, anticipated evaluation, or future meeting is not a completed referral. Report the date the referral was actually made or received under the authorized local process.

The initial-evaluation sequence

1 · Referral24.10 records when the referral occurred.
2 · Referring party24.11 identifies the referral source.
3 · Parental consent24.12 records consent for the initial evaluation.
4 · Evaluation/meeting24.13 or 24.14 identifies completion or pending status.

Chronology rule: Referral must have occurred; referral source accompanies it; consent is the same date or later; the meeting/evaluation follows the applicable prerequisite dates.

Valid, invalid, and diagnostic examples

ResultExampleWhy
ValidToday 20260829; Referral 20260829 or earlierThe referral has occurred.
InvalidToday 20260829; Referral 20260903The referral is future-dated.
Common cause20260809 entered as 20260908Month/day transposition creates a future event.

Concrete checks

  • Compare the submission date with the referral evidence.
  • Check century, year, month, day, and field mapping.
  • Confirm a planned meeting or evaluation date was not exported as 24.10.
  • If the referral has not occurred, do not submit an initial-evaluation MEET event prematurely.

Recommended correction path

  1. 1

    Preserve the rejected event

    Capture submission ID, SSID, Reporting LEA and SELPA, Academic Year, 24.10–24.14, 24.16, and the complete MEET history.

  2. 2

    Confirm the evaluation type

    Determine whether this is Initial Part B (10), Initial Part C (15), another evaluation, a plan review, or a different meeting event.

  3. 3

    Build the four-event timeline

    Place referral, referral source, consent, and meeting/pending evidence in chronological order. Keep documents from different evaluations separate.

  4. 4

    Verify authoritative evidence

    Use the referral/intake record, consent documentation, assessment workflow, meeting record, and current SEDS history. Do not infer a date or party from who entered the data.

  5. 5

    Correct the source and mapping

    Replace an erroneous future date with the actual referral date. If the referral is genuinely prospective, wait until the referral occurs; do not backdate it. Repair repeatable extract logic.

  6. 6

    Resubmit and reconcile

    Confirm acceptance, inspect the full MEET history, and review connected SWDS and PLAN records plus other students produced by the same workflow.

Official references