Lifelong Learning Program

Lifelong Learning (LLL), through its GED Center and High School Units program, offers students the opportunity to return to school and finish their education. High school students must be withdrawn from their high school in order to enroll in the LLL program as students cannot be dually enrolled. IDEA regulations clarify that a GED does not meet the definition of a regular high school diploma and does not end the district’s responsibility to provide a student with a disability a Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE).

If a student turns age 21 after September 1 of the current school year, the LEA must permit the student to enroll and complete the school year if the student will graduate or exit with a State High School Diploma, a GED, or a District Credential (non-diploma). The district must make a FAPE available to any eligible student who has not graduated with a State High School Diploma until the end of the school year in which the student turns 21. When a student with eligibility for services under IDEA enrolls in LLL, a FAPE must be provided including those services comparable to the services in the student’s IEP. The Case Manager at the LLL Program shoulld contact Special Education Data Entry Personnel to determine if the student previously met eligibility under the IDEA. The transfer process procedures will be followed for students with disabilities who enroll in LLL after withdrawing from their high school.

The assigned Special Education Case Manager will:

• Assign the student to their caseload in the IEP software system.


• Immediately begin providing services as identified in the current IEP.


• Contact the Special Education Inactive Records contact to secure the special education file.


• The Transfer IEP and Statement of Comparable Services must be followed for eligible students who have received special education services in Greenville County Schools prior to withdrawing and have now re-enrolled. This applies to all students who have stopped attending school for more than 10 days. For additional guidance with the Transfer IEP and Statement of Comparable Services process, click here.


• The Case Manager at LLL will follow federal, state and local guidelines related to reporting progress toward IEP goals, conducting annual reviews, and conducting reevaluations for students on their caseload.

Enrollment into the Lifelong Learning Program is voluntary and must be pursued by the student. There is a fee for attending the LLL program. For more information, please visit the Lifelong Learning website at: www.greenville.k12.sc.us/lifelong.