SWDS errors involve a student’s special education eligibility and status information. These validations check disability, eligibility, entry, exit, and related status fields. Review the student’s special education history and ensure SWDS records align with the applicable meeting, plan, service, enrollment, and postsecondary records.
The Reporting LEA of the submitter must equal the Reporting LEA in the record, or the Reporting SELPA of the submitter must have a relationship with the Reporting LEA in the record.
Field must only contain Alphabetic letters, numbers, periods, hyphens apostrophes, forward slashes, spaces. Alphabetic characters with accents, tildes, or umlauts are allowed.
Valid characters are based on the UTF-8 character set standards.
Duplicate Record within File based on Operational Key
SWDS0343
Students who are Eligible and Participating must haveInitial Entry Start Date populated
If Special Education Status Code = 1 (Eligible and Participating) and Special Education Initial Entry Start Date is null
SWDS0353
Invalid Special Education Status Effective Start Date for Special Education Initial Entry Start Date
Special Education Status Effective Start Date for Eligible and Participating Student must be equal to or greater than Special Education Initial Entry Start Date
SWDS0355
Special Education Initial Entry Start Date is greater than current date
Special Education Initial Entry Start Date must be less than or equal to current date.