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CALPADS error brief · MEET

MEET0443

Invalid SELPA for Reporting LEA
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

SELPA must be a valid Entity Code and have an active reporting relationship with the Reporting LEA.

Focus fields

Fields validated

24.04 - Reporting LEA 24.05 - Academic Year ID 24.09 - Reporting SELPA 24.13 - Special Education Meeting Date 24.14 - Pending As Of Date

Recommended correction path

Suggested resolution

Official rule in plain language

Severity: Fatal   Type: Input Validation

Fields validated

  • 24.04 Reporting LEA
  • 24.05 Academic Year ID
  • 24.09 Reporting SELPA
  • 24.13 Special Education Meeting Date
  • 24.14 Pending As Of Date

Relationship and period must agree

Reporting LEAThe organization submitting and owning the MEET record.
Event periodAcademic Year plus Meeting Date or Pending As Of Date.
Reporting SELPAMust have the active relationship for that LEA and period.

Concrete checks

  • Confirm the four-digit SELPA code against the current CDE directory.
  • Verify Reporting LEA, Academic Year, and the populated event date together.
  • Check whether the LEA changed SELPAs between academic years.
  • Confirm whether 24.13 or 24.14 is the applicable event anchor; do not populate both.
  • If local evidence supports the relationship but CALPADS rejects it, preserve the submission and organizational evidence for SELPA/CDE review.

Recommended correction path

  1. 1

    Preserve the rejected evidence

    Capture submission ID, row number, raw MEET row, file name, extract version, and the student’s current MEET history.

  2. 2

    Identify the exact event

    Match SSID, Reporting LEA and SELPA, Academic Year, Meeting Date or Pending As Of Date, evaluation activity, plan review, and outcome.

  3. 3

    Compare source, file, and ODS

    Reconcile the authoritative special education record with the literal delimited row and any accepted CALPADS record.

  4. 4

    Resolve this validation

    Verify the Reporting LEA–SELPA relationship for the Academic Year and the applicable Meeting Date or Pending As Of Date. Correct the organizational mapping only when the source relationship is wrong.

  5. 5

    Correct the owning system

    Repair the SEDS, export mapping, transaction logic, or organizational relationship that generated the error. Avoid a one-off file edit that will recur.

  6. 6

    Regenerate and verify broadly

    Confirm acceptance, inspect the complete MEET history, and test other records produced by the same extract or relationship rule.

Official references