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CALPADS error brief · SDEM

SDEM0114

Staff Employment End Date Less Than Staff Employment Start Date
Severity Fatal
Error type Input Validation
Record type SDEM

Official CALPADS rule

What CALPADS is rejecting

Staff Employment End Date must be greater than or equal to Staff Employment Start Date

Focus fields

Fields validated

7.28 Staff Employment Start Date 7.29 Staff Employment End Date

Recommended correction path

Suggested resolution

CALPADS SDEM correction guide · Fatal input validation

SDEM0114: Staff Employment End Date Less Than Staff Employment Start Date

Staff Employment End Date must be greater than or equal to Staff Employment Start Date

Official CALPADS rule

Severity: Fatal   Type: Input Validation

Fields validated:

  • 7.28 Staff Employment Start Date
  • 7.29 Staff Employment End Date

SDLA Flowchart: follow the staff data from source to certification

1 · Authoritative personnel evidenceHR, personnel, payroll, credentialing, and staff-provided records establish the supported facts.
2 · Local reconciliationResolve identity, SEID, employment dates, demographics, service history, and ownership across the systems that hold them.
3 · SIS or integration extractTranslate local values into the current 31-field SDEM layout, CALPADS code sets, and effective-date rules.
4 · CALPADS SDEM historyPost the supported staff demographic record and inspect the accepted effective-dated history under the correct SEID and LEA.
5 · Downstream review and Fall 2 certificationReconcile SASS and CRSE dependencies, Reports 4.1–4.5, Census Day inclusion, and certification totals.

Recommended correction path

  1. 1

    Build the staff timeline

    Place record-effective dates, academic year, employment start, employment end, and the current date in order.

  2. 2

    Name each date’s purpose

    Do not use Record Effective End Date as a substitute for Staff Employment End Date.

  3. 3

    Compare the validated relationship

    Check format, academic-year boundaries, future-date limits, and start/end sequencing.

  4. 4

    Resolve with HR/personnel

    Confirm the actual employment event and correct the authoritative date or extract rule.

  5. 5

    Post and inspect history

    Verify the accepted SDEM effective-dated history and downstream Fall 2 records.

2026–27 Fall 2 calendar

Before Census DayReconcile HR/personnel, SEIDs, SDEM histories, SASS assignments, course records, and local mappings.
Fall 2 Census Day and opening of the official submission window.
CDE’s recommended date for reaching zero Fall 2 errors.
Certification deadline. Fall 2 has no amendment window.

Verify the official CDE calendar before acting because dates can change.

Before closing the correction

  • Confirm the accepted SDEM history under the intended SEID and Reporting LEA.
  • Compare CALPADS Report 4.4 with authorized HR/personnel evidence.
  • Reconcile related SASS and CRSE records and Fall 2 Reports 4.1–4.5.
  • Check other staff affected by the same source, mapping, or interface rule.

Official references and practical support