State Reporting 26.9.2.0 Release Notes

PSSR-445283

All States: CRDC 25-26 LEA UI Update

The District/LEA compliance page has been updated for the 2025-2026 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) cycle.

• Streamlined Data Collection: Removed outdated questions (NB-1) and Gender Identity sub-questions for HIBD-4, HIBD-5, and HIBD-6, moving them to the Deprecated Fields section to maintain historical records while simplifying current reporting.

• New Reporting Indicators: Added the RSTS-1 section to track Mechanical Restraint, Physical Restraint, and Seclusion indicators for LEA students served in non-LEA facilities, ensuring compliance with new federal requirements.

PSSR-445295

All States: CRDC 25-26 School UI Updates

The School compliance page has been updated for the 2025–2026 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) cycle.

• New reporting indicators: Added a Bilingual teacher certificate field to the Staff section to capture staff certified as bilingual, and introduced THRE-1 to record whether the school has a Threat Assessment Team.

• Instructional terminology updates: Renamed several "Directional Indicator" fields to Instruction to align with new CRDC standards:

  • "COVID-related Directional Indicators" is now INST: Instruction.

  • "Directional Indicator – Instruction Type" is now INST-1: Instruction Type (the 'D' option was removed).

  • "Directional Indicator - Remote Instruction" is now INST-2: Remote Instruction.

  • "Percentage of students who received remote instruction" is now INST-3: Remote Instruction Percentage.

  • Virtual instruction clarification: Updated SCHR-1 to ask if the school offered only remote instruction.

• Streamlined data collection: Deprecated these outdated questions and moved them to the Deprecated section:

  • ATHL-3: Count of non-binary student participants on teams.

  • DIND-3: Directional Indicator 3.

  • HIBS-1: Allegations of harassment or bullying based on gender identity.

PSSR-446452

All States: CRDC 25-26 Student UI Updates

The Student compliance page was updated for the 2025–2026 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) cycle.

• New reporting indicator: Added a new "Threat Assessment" section to the Student Compliance CRDC page, including a new field, THRE — Is the student referred to a Threat Assessment Team?

PSSR-447576

All States: Discipline Letter Principal Signature Loading Issue

Resolved an issue where principal signature files failed to load in the "Review School Info" setup due to case-sensitivity in the web_root folder path. The system now correctly identifies the signature folder regardless of whether the directory name is uppercase or lowercase, ensuring signatures are available for selection and reporting.

PSSR-438696

All States: Enhanced Security for Sub-District Management

Resolved an issue where non-admin users with "Read Only" permissions could still edit and save changes on the Sub-District Configuration and Edit Sub-District pages. These pages now correctly respect user access levels, removing the submit button and disabling editing for unauthorized users to ensure data integrity.

PSSR-435498

Change History for Student Programs

Change History functionality tracks updates to compliance fields on the Student Programs page, including entry date, exit date, program, exit reason, grade level, and SP comment.

PSSR-440775

Ed-Fi Framework: Fixed Missing School Enrollment Records in ODS After Student Transfer and Re-Enrollment

Resolved an issue where a student's school enrollment record was incorrectly deleted from the Ed-Fi ODS after the student transferred out and re-enrolled.

PSSR-411691

Ed-Fi Framework: Optimized Student Publishing Selection

When publishing Ed-Fi data for selected students, the system now processes only the specific schools where those students have an active enrollment, re-enrollment, or course schedule record for the current school year. Previously, student selection requests evaluated all schools within the district regardless of enrollment status. This update eliminates unnecessary background processing and significantly improves publishing speed and efficiency.

PSSR-388887

Ed-Fi Framework: Publish All Staff Records

District administrators can now publish all eligible staff data - including previously unpublished records directly from the staff publishing page.

Publish All Records: A new Publish All Records button is available on the Staff > Data Exchange > Publishing page alongside the existing Republish Records option. Selecting this option submits all eligible data across all enabled Ed-Fi resources for the selected staff member, capturing both new/unpublished records and existing entries.

PSSR-449716

Ed-Fi Framework: Publishing Dependency Updates

School publishing now automatically waits for the associated LEA publish to complete in Ed-Fi, preventing concurrent publishing errors.

PSSR-450753

Ed-Fi Framework: Updates to Org Id Format

Updated the Ed-Fi Self Service publishing process so that localEducationAgencyId, schoolId, and educationOrganizationId are formatted as numeric values rather than text strings. Any leading zeroes are now automatically stripped prior to publishing.

PSSR-366562

MD New Civil Rights Data Collection 2023-24 Report

Additional Reference: PSSR-366564, PSSR-366563, PSSR-366983

The new Civil Rights Data Collection 2023-2024 Report is now available.

A new process has been introduced to enhance the performance. The CRDC report section under the compliance report will have two reports, namely “CRDC Data Loader“ and “CRDC Report“.

Users can now run the “CRDC Data Loader“ which will load all the necessary data required for CRDC Report which removes the need for loading the data each time the CRDC report is run

PSSR-449726

SIF Message Viewer Updates

The SIF Message Viewer page has been updated with a redesigned interface, enhanced message management tools, and direct navigation menu access for states using a SIF Unity.

Key Improvements

• Direct Menu Navigation

  • The SIF Messages link now appears directly in the main navigation menu for any state configured with a SIF Unity profile, removing the need to manually enter the page URL.

• Enhanced Page Usability

  • Message ID Column: Added a dedicated ID column to help identify messages easily.

  • Error Details: Added quick error visibility (column/popup) so users can inspect message error details instantly.

  • Table Sorting: Enabled sorting across table columns to easily organize and review messages.

  • Refresh Button: Added a Refresh button to update message status instantly without reloading the entire web page.

• Message Deletion & Audit Logging

  • Delete Messages: Users can now delete SIF messages directly from the screen.

  • Audit Trail: Every message deletion is automatically logged in cst_publog as an informational entry for tracking and audit history.