State Reporting 22.7.1.0 Release Notes

A release announcement will be posted on PowerSchool Community when the installer is available for download. Refer to 2022 State Reporting Releases for release dates.

Reference	Summary	Release Note
PSSR-293637	All States/Provinces: 2022-23 NCEA Data Collection Updates	Data collection updates to support 2022-23 NCEA Data Bank reporting are now available for the Diocese, School, and Student pages. There are no changes to the NCEA Staff page. The related report updates will follow in a subsequent release. District > Diocese Information for NCEA Reporting: Updates for Principal Retention The number of principals who were employed during the last school year: new source fields are added. Elementary: [Prefs]NCEA_Princ_LastYear_Elem Secondary: [Prefs]NCEA_Princ_LastYear_Sec The number of principals who did not return for the current school year: source fields are unchanged. Elementary: [Prefs]NCEA_Princ_Not_Return_Elem Secondary: [Prefs]NCEA_Princ_Not_Return_Sec School > General > School Information for NCEA Reporting: Elements are reorganized under new panels; the explanatory text is added; fields are updated or added as noted. General School Information Exclude school from NCEA reporting School Location School Sponsorship School Gender School serves grades PK-12 or K-12 as a single school Government Funded Programs School receives Title I services: Explanatory text is added to indicate "If Title I services are not selected for the school, no students in the school can be reported as receiving Title I services." School receives Title II services School receives Title III services School receives Title IV services School offers federal nutrition programs: Explanatory text is added to indicate "If federal nutrition programs are not selected for the school, no students in the school can be reported as receiving free/reduced lunch." New field: All students in the school receive free/reduced lunch S_SCH_NCEA_X.FederalNutritionAll_TF Select this box if the school provides free/reduced lunch to all students regardless of income qualification. All students will be automatically reported as receiving free/reduced lunch without the need to code students individually on the NCEA Student page. Additional Information The school has Board, Commission, or Council: A new data collection model and source field (S_SCH_NCEA_X.BoardType). Select the appropriate code from the dropdown list. (A) Advisory (C) Consultative (F) Full Authority (L) Limited Jurisdiction (N) No Board The school has an Extended Day Program The school has a waiting list The school received E-rate telecom discounts last school year School offers Dual Language Immersion Program School offers International Baccalaureate Program Number of Staff by Type: New field for Librarians is added (S_SCH_NCEA_X.Staff_Lib). Teacher Retention The number of teachers who were employed during the last school year: New source field is added (S_SCH_NCEA_NCEA_Teacher_Last_Year). The number of teachers who did not return for the current school year: Source field is unchanged (S_SCH_NCEA_X.Teacher_Not_Return). Student > Information > NCEA Student Information New explanatory text added “Has diagnosed disability” to indicate "Includes ADD/ADHD, Autism, Emotional/behavioral, hearing impairments, learning disabilities, physical disabilities, speech/language impairments, visual impairments". The obsolete “Eligible for Title I Services” element is removed. New logic for “Receives free/reduced meals” is implemented. If the school-level setting for the federal nutrition program is not checked, no students can be flagged for free/reduced lunch, and the field displays “Not Offered.” The explanatory text indicates “School offers federal nutrition programs is not selected on the NCEA school page.” If the school-level setting for “All students in the school receive free/reduced lunch” is checked, the field displays “Yes.” The explanatory text indicates “All students will be reported as receiving free/reduced lunch based on the NCEA school page setting.” If the school offers federal nutrition, but the setting for “All students in the school receive free/reduced lunch” is not checked, the checkbox for “Receives free/reduced meals” is enabled and individual students can be selected as applicable. Eligible for free/reduced meals: New explanatory text is added to indicate “Students whose household income is below the U.S. Department of Agriculture threshold should be selected as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch regardless of whether the school offers federal nutrition programs.”
PSSR-295125	Ed-Fi: The Ability to Publish Selected Students Prior to School Start Date	The Ability to Publish Selected Students Prior to School Start Date With this State Reporting Update, a new check-box has been introduced under SE/EV Tab in the State Student Pages, which will allow users to publish the selected students to publish them to the State prior to the School Start Date. The New check box is named as Publish SPED Student prior to School Start Date, if it is checked below student resources will get published: Student Demographics. Student Enrollments (Student School and Responsible Organization) Student Special Education Program Association
PSSR-295596	Ed-Fi: Add an Option to Publish Data for the 22-23 School Year	Added an option to publishing data for the 2022-2023 school year for the following Ed-Fi profiles: IN DOE 2 (Data Exchange) IN DOE (InSite) CHIRP
PSSR-294736	Ed-Fi: Students Excluded From State Reporting were getting published	For some Districts, there was an issue in which the students were getting published even if they were excluded from state reporting. This issue has been fixed with this state reporting update.
PSSR-295706	Ed-Fi: 2023 School Year Updates for Responsible Organizations (Part 2)	With this state reporting update, the below-mentioned publishing updates have been implemented for Student’s Responsible Organization: Instructional Days and Instructional Minutes Fields have been added to the school enrollment record pages. Instructional Days and Instructional Minutes will get published with the Student Education Organization Association (Responsible Organization) record and only for the students with the ADM Type (6) Dual Enrollment or (20) Adult Education. Users can manually assign the values to the Instructional Days (S_IN_STU_X.Instructional_Days) and Instructional Minutes (S_IN_STU_X.Instructional_Minutes) fields. But if they are left blank then the below-mentioned logic will be followed: If the Instructional Days are left blank, then the value will be pulled from the Entry and Exit Dates of the student’s enrollment and the in-session calendar days. If the Instructional Minutes are left blank, then the value will be pulled from Course Enrollment Records, Periods that the student is enrolled in, and the bell schedule during the enrollment.
PSSR-295044	Ed-Fi: 2023 School Year Updates for Responsible Organizations (Part 1)	With this state reporting update, the below-mentioned publishing updates have been implemented for Student’s Responsible Organization: One Student Education Organization Association (Responsible Organization) record will get generated for each school enrollment record. The Responsible Organization Record will get published with a Begin Date and an End Date, they will be pulled from the Student’s School Enrollment Record’s Entry and Exit Date respectively. If it is a future enrollment record, i.e., the Exit Date is a future date then the End Date will be published as Blank.
PSSR-296916	Ed-Fi: Publishing Logic Update for Course Transcripts when CourseAttemptResultType is "No grade awarded"	When CourseAttemptResultType is "No grade awarded", the below-mentioned updates are being implemented for the Course Transcripts publishing FinalNumericGradeEarned will be published as Blank. EarnedCredits and EarnedCreditType will not be published anymore.