Validating out-of country "high school diplomas" is going to be an issue for Heinzerling as we already have a large number of staff and potential applicants who did not go to high school in the US.

Is there any guidance from DODD on how we are to handle this? We also agree that the new GED requirement for ICF's will only increase the difficulty of finding staff.

Christine Rafeld
Administrator
Heinzerling Foundation
1800 Heinzerling Drive
Columbus, OH 43223
614-272-8888
crafeld@heinzerling.org
www.heinzerling.org

-----Original Message-----
From: list-manager@opra.simplelists.com [mailto:list-manager@opra.simplelists.com] On Behalf Of Jamie Steele
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2016 10:43 AM
To: opra_members@opra.simplelists.com
Subject: Re: GED Citations

One of the problems we are having is Licensure challenging the validity of an out of state GED.  They want us to detail our process for validating such GED Certificates, but they give no guidance on what is acceptable?  I can only imagine what they want us to do to validate out of Country documents.  I have no problem having a process in place for validity, but tell us what an acceptable process is and what isn't.

As Than said, with our work force issues, this is the time we either need to stick to what the regulation says, throw it out, get more clarification and if not then let’s not make up rules.  We all know it’s hard enough without that.

Jamie

On Apr 12, 2016, at 10:25 AM, Anita Allen <aallen@opra.org<mailto:aallen@opra.org>> wrote:

Good morning. We are hearing that DODD is issuing citations regarding GED’s that aren’t “singed off on” by the Ohio Department of Education (which is not a rule requirement). Has anyone experienced this or any other issue with GEDs/HS diplomas during reviews?

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Vice President
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