MARSS 101 Questions and Answers

1.  In FY03 a special ed senior received an end code of 09.  This senior returned again for the FY04, since special ed students can be serviced by the district until they are 21.  Since this student already had an end code of 09 last year, will the special ed status of 4 allow this year's record to be accepted (so far there have been no errors generated with the fall files submitted on this student)?  If not, is there a way to go back and change the FY03 end code back to a 40?  If the student graduated at the end of FY03 with a status end of 09 then they cannot come back the following year since they met the requirements for graduation regardless of their age. 
 
2.  A special ed only student is homebound, receiving services from special ed only.  This student is severely limited and recieves no traditional educational services.  The student has been enrolled since the beginning of the year as a 4th grade student, but has been absent all year.  Will a homebound status be the answer in this case, even though the only "education" provided is special ed services (much like birth - 2 EC students in the home only)?  If the student has been placed on homebound following the homebound procedure and there is a medical note on file then yes homebound would work.  
 
3.  A student lived another district with his mother for 7 months, and attended school in that district.  In April the student moved into the district in question to live with his father for 2 months, and attended school for those 2 months in the father's district.  The father's district attempted to bill the mother's district for these 2 months, but the mother's district refused, upon George Holt's instruction.  According to the MARSS Appendix K #2, this student should be considered a resident of the mother's district, since he lived with her for the greater part of the school year.  This student would be considered a resident of the district in which mom lives, the fathers district needs to get a non-resident agreement signed from mom's district. 
 
4.  When using the summer dropout Procedure 12 - if a non-resident student has a SAC or 98, the microedit produces an error on the student.  Can a non-resident be reported as a summer dropout?  Districts are only to report their residents for summer drop outs they shouldn't not be reporting non-residents since these students could of gone back to their resident district. 
 
5.  Procedure 7 describes how to report summer graduates (who make up work in the summer via a correspondence course to complete graduation requirements).  Would this same procedure be followed if the student makes up the work after a lapse of a year?   If the work is made up later than in the summer, what date would be used for start and end date on this record?  Here is the example - Student was a non-graduating senior - end code 40 - in FY02. The student did nothing toward his education in FY03.  In FY04 the student took a correspondence course to meet grad requirements of the district and received his diploma in December 2003).  You could report this student as a summer graduate for the FY04 school year and use the dates that would fit into that school year. 
 
6.  Resident district question - student lives with grandmother in your district, parents live in another district.  Grandmother is the legal guardian, but it is unknown whether the grandmother receives foster care money from the state/county.  If grandmother does receive foster care money, would she be considered a "foster care home"?  It seems regardless of the scenario above, the student will be a resident of the grandmother's district.  Are we correct?  IF this is a special education student then the resident district is still the district in which parents live unless parental rights have been terminated.  IF not a special ed student and Grandmother is a foster home then the student would be a resident of the district in which Grandmother lives. If Grandmother is not a foster home then the resident district is still where the parents live unless parental rights have been terminated.
 
7.  When a student moves from one district to enroll in another district, does the student need to fill out a new Application for Educational Benefits, or can the form filled out in the original district follow the student to the new district?  An application should be filled out at both districts.  IF the second district can get a copy from the first district than that would be OK as long as they have that application on file.