The Validation Tool for Paraeducator Minimum Employment and Training Requirements is now available.

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Ensuring Instructional Paraeducators’ State Minimum Employment and Training Requirements Are Met

The purpose of this workbook is to support Local Education Agencies (LEAs) in ensuring that all instructional paraeducators meet applicable state minimum employment and certification requirements.

Per the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Section 1111 (g)(2)(J), "OSPI will ensure that all teachers and paraprofessionals working in a Title I program meet applicable State certification and licensure requirements, including any requirements for certification obtained through alternative routes to certification."

This workbook serves as a supporting tool to help meet this federal requirement for all instructional paraeducators. The Title I, Part A Program office will review these requirements as part of the Program Review process beginning in November 2026.

This workbook provides a list of instructional paraeducators working at each school within a LEA, along with their state minimum employment and certification requirements. LEAs are responsible for verifying each paraeducator’s state requirements for the LEA(s) in which they are employed. The information in this workbook is integrated from Personnel Reporting (S275), the Comprehensive Education Data and Research System (CEDARS), and ECert. The Tableau workbook data will be updated every Saturday at 9:00 AM.

District Administrators or users with the Education Data System (EDS) application role “Tableau Server, Tableau SecureDataPortal–Educator Interactor” can view the workbook (Paraeducator Minimum Employment and Training Requirement Validation Tool) in the folder: Tableau Server\SecureDataPortal\Educator.

If you believe you are the correct person to use the validation tool and cannot access these workbooks, please contact your District Data Security Manager to be assigned the appropriate EDS user role.

Contact

For questions regarding this data, please contact EducatorData@k12.wa.us. For questions regarding Title I, Part A Program requirements and the Program Review, please contact Title1a@k12.wa.us.

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