Georgia Online IEP

Out of state transfer accepting eligibility

Scenario Five: A high school student has never received services in Georgia but has received services as a student with a disability in another state in the US for the last 6 years. You received a complete Reevaluation that is still current along with an IEP that was completed 2 months ago.

1. After clicking on the Override link, Option 3 will allow the entry of events that either were never reported in GA Student Record OR occurred outside Georgia.

2. Then the next section will appear.

3. Answer the question about the school the student last attended. By default, GA and your system are selected and can be edited.

 In this scenario, you would choose “USA” and then locate the name of the state from the drop-down menu.

4. The override timeline screen will now allow you to enter or verify events 01- 08. Make sure you have documentation and consult that documentation when adding or changing event dates. Refer to the Student Record Event Chart located in the IEP Reports- Student Records Extract section for descriptions of the events.

a. The “edit” area for events 01-03 will allow you to enter the new date with an override reason. (If initial eligibility has not yet occurred, do not report the 02 or 03 event.)

b. If appropriate, the date and reason for making the change for events 01, 02, and 03 should be entered.

5. Events 04 and 08 are edited through the eligibility verification.

6. Events 05- 07 are edited through the IEP verification.

In this scenario, even though this student is high school and has been receiving services for 6 years in another state, since this student has never received services in the state of GA, all our events will be initial. You would edit to add the 04 and 05 dates as they occurred in the previously attended school in another state in the US and select the reason for editing the event. This reason will later be used when recovering rejected dates in Student Records. The 06 date that we add would be the date that services started in GA.  

Eligibility verification

1. Click on the blue “edit” link next to 04 event to edit or verify eligibility dates. If you need to add or change a date, this section will allow you to do that.

2. You will then respond to a series of questions related to the eligibility date you are reporting. The last initial eligibility date reported, either to Student Record or within GO-IEP will prepopulate. Options unavailable will be grayed out.

3. If no date is showing or if you need to change the date showing, you will have the opportunity to enter the new date in the “Initial Override Date” area after responding to the question about accepting an eligibility that has never been reported in Georgia.

4. If you select YES to the question, the “Initial Override Date” area will appear. Enter the date on the eligibility report you have and click on the blue link to select an override reason.

5.  If you select NO to the question, a prepopulated statement will appear stating that the system has some information indicating the student is eligible, and an area for you to select the disability category(ies) to be used in a temporary eligibility will appear.

For the current scenario, the Initial Eligibility date is null because no dates are available in SR or in GO-IEP. Since you are accepting the eligibility from the prior state, you would choose YES, then add the most recent eligibility date from the prior state (which will be used as the initial GA eligibility) in the override date area and click the link to add the override reason. This reason will later be used when recovering rejected dates in Student Records.  

6. Respond to the question about the most recent eligibility.  

If there has not been a Reevaluation since the date entered for the initial eligibility (as is the case with the current scenario), your answer would be YES, and you will then be given a screen to answer questions related to the report and enter the eligibility categories. It is important that you have the actual eligibility report (not an IEP) accessible to select ALL categories of disability as documented ON THE ELIGIBILITY REPORT.

Since the student in the current scenario is coming from another system, it is also important to verify that if the eligibility received from the previous system is a redetermination which continued eligibility, the original eligibility report the redetermination is based upon is also available in your paper or electronic file.

This process will create a MOCK ELIGIBILITY. While not required, many districts find it helpful to upload the electronic or scanned paper copy of the Eligibility on the Documents tab.

Two response options are available related to the eligibility being reported.  

• The first option allows you to indicate that this is the date of a complete eligibility in your paper/electronic file AND it is aligned with GA eligibility criteria. 
• Option 2 allows you to indicate the date reflects a reevaluation data review that continued eligibility AND you have a copy of that ALONG WITH the original complete eligibility report that is aligned to GA eligibility criteria.
• Whenever accepting an eligibility from another state, the eligibility becomes the GA eligibility, and the system is responsible for making sure that document complies with GA eligibility criteria. If monitored, the accepted out of state eligibility report would be held to the same standard as an eligibility report completed by your school system

In the current scenario, the accurate response is the first radio button since you received a complete eligibility report that, when reviewed, was compliant with GA rules and regulations for the named eligibility category. 

After selecting the response to the question, the appropriate disabilities identified in the eligibility report would be selected. The categories selected would be based upon those listed on the eligibility report, not based upon the evaluation information or services listed within the IEP.

7. Before finishing Eligibility verification, the system admin must respond to 2 final questions related to a) if a comprehensive evaluation is currently in process and b) if the system admin recommends a reevaluation data review be conducted earlier than the actual due date.

a. The question about an earlier recommended due date is for information purposes only at this time and will not impact the actual timeline of the eligibility. In the future, we will add a report of the students                 with a YES response to this question

8. RESET could be used if the system admin needs to clear the information entered to start again with the eligibility verification. SAVE and VERIFY will complete the eligibility determination. GO BACK will leave the Eligibility area without making any changes.

In the current scenario, if the district is not accepting the IEP from the previous school district in another state in the US, the override would be ready to submit.

If there was not an initial IEP and initial placement already reported in Georgia and the district has reviewed an IEP from another state and has determined to not accept that IEP, do not enter or verify the IEP. Submit the override and the “Start Initial IEP” link should be available to schedule the initial IEP. If the IEP is being accepted and will be used for any time frame, move on to IEP and initial placement verification.  

If your district will serve the student even briefly under the IEP from another state, this means you accepted that IEP. If no 05 and 06 event was already reported in Georgia, the Event 05 would be the date of that IEP, and the Event 06 would be the date you began providing services under that IEP.

IEP and initial placement verification

1. Click on the blue “edit” link next to the 05 event. This will open the IEP event verification. If you need to add or change a date, this same section will allow you to do that.

2. You will then respond to a series of questions related to the IEP date you are reporting. The last initial IEP date reported, either to Student Record or within GO-IEP will prepopulate. Options unavailable will be grayed out. If no date is showing or if you need to change the date showing, enter the new date in the “Initial Override Date” area and click on the blue link to select an override reason.

For the current scenario, the Initial IEP date is null because no dates are available in SR or in GO-IEP. You would add the most recent IEP from the prior state (which will be used as the initial GA IEP date) in the override date area and click the link to add the override reason. This reason will later be used when recovering rejected dates in Student Records.

3. Respond to the question about the most recent IEP.  

If there has not been a new Annual Review since the date entered for the initial IEP (as is the case with the current scenario), your answer would be YES. It is important that you have the actual IEP accessible to document the correct meeting date and service start/end dates. This process will create a MOCK IEP. While not required, many districts find it helpful to upload the electronic or scanned paper copy of the IEP on the Documents tab.

Three response options are available related to the IEP being reported.  

• The first option allows you to indicate the date reflects an IEP that the district has received AND is accepting from a district in GA AND the event has not yet been reported to Student Record. This could be for an IEP that was developed by your system outside of GO-IEP (as might be the case with a new district set up or a student that moved to a GO-IEP district from a non-GO-IEP district during the school year).
• Option 2 allows you to indicate the date reflects an IEP that the district has received AND is accepting from another state in the US.
• Option 3 only applies to an IEP developed by another GA district and allows the district to indicate that the previous GA district reported the IEP date, however, the system hasn’t received a copy of the actual IEP document.

For the current scenario, since the IEP is from another state and you are planning to use that IEP, option 2 would be used.

If option 1 or 2 are chosen:

a.  Document the date services began under the initial IEP in GEORGIA (in the scenario this would be the date your system started providing the services listed in the IEP) and select an override                 reason.

**If the student is being served in Georgia for the first time, or you are reporting initial services that occurred after 6/15/2019, Event 14, Consent for the Provision of Special Education Services, must be reported. If you have a copy of the consent for services from another state, that date may be used. If you do not, you would obtain a signed consent as soon as possible and enter that date on the timeline override for Event 14 or on the timeline page after the override has been submitted.

b. Document the ending date for the IEP. A system admin may want to set an earlier end date to avoid having a MOCK IEP in place for FTE reporting.

c. Select the primary disability.

If you select that you DO NOT have either an electronic or paper copy of the IEP (Option 3), an Annual Review will be due immediately.

Use the submit button to complete the IEP verification.

Submitting the Timelines Override

Once any dates needed have been added AND both eligibility and IEP have been verified, a Submit option will appear.

After choosing “Submit”, you will either receive verification of the timelines being submitted OR receive an audit error that will need to be addressed prior to submitting. Review any audit errors and go back and edit the dates on the override grid to clear the audit errors.