PowerSchool SIS Kansas

State Reporting 26.9.3.0 Release Notes

A release announcement will be posted on PowerSchool Customer Central when the installer is available for download.

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Summary

Release Note

PSSR-452391

All States: CRDC 25-26 Sub District UI Update

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

  • Streamlined data collection: Removed outdated NB-1 questions and moved Gender Identity sub-questions for HIBD-4, HIBD-5, and HIBD-6 to the Deprecated Fields section to keep historical records and simplify current reporting.

  • New reporting indicators: Added the RSTS-1 section to track mechanical restraint, physical restraint, and seclusion for LEA students served in non-LEA facilities to meet new federal requirements.

PSSR-452084

Common: Discipline Incident Letters Update

Discipline Incident Letter

Resolved an issue where Discipline Incident Letters would display all action codes associated with an incident, even when configured to filter for a specific Action Code and with "Include All Actions" set to No. This ensures that parent correspondence accurately reflects only the intended disciplinary actions.

PSSR-448877

Course status dropdown updates

The Course Status drop-down on the Edit Section enrollment page has been updated to reflect revised Attempt Status descriptors.

PSSR-448876

CTE Certification Codes for 2026-27

New CTE Certification Codes for 2026-27 populate as options in the smart text box on the student certification page.

PSSR-438586

Descriptor downloads for compliance reporting

Code values and descriptions for AttemptStatusDescriptor and EducationPlansDescriptor can be downloaded from the data exchange dashboard for compliance reporting.

PSSR-449718

Ed-Fi Self Service: Course Publishing for Excluded Schools

Updated course publishing logic to ensure schools marked as Excluded from State Reporting do not publish course data.

PSSR-451533

Ed-Fi Self Service: Limited English Mapping

Resolved an issue where Limited English mappings were not being applied during Ed-Fi publishing. Configured mapping values are now respected as expected, and unmapped (blank) records default to Not Limited.

PSSR-430937

KEDS profile 2026-2027

The KEDS profile has been updated for the 2026-2027 school year.

PSSR-450563

KPP and KPAT program records publish as StudentProgramAssociations

Kansas Parents as Teachers Program and Kansas Pre-K Pilot Program records are now published using the StudentProgramAssociations resource.

PSSR-438587

Removed unused state code descriptors

State codes for MilitaryConnectedStudentDescriptor, NeglectedDelinquentStudentDescriptor, and QualifiedFor504Descriptor have been removed.

PSSR-450756

Student characteristic data publishing update

StudentCharacteristicDescriptors data from additional student PSA fields in the StudentEducationOrganizationAssociation resource are published to meet reporting requirements in 2026-27.

PSSR-440466

StudentAssessment resource compliance update

The StudentAssessment resource includes AssessmentReportingMethodDescriptor and PerformanceLevelDescriptor for 2026-27 State Reporting.

PSSR-438588

StudentEducationOrganizationAssociations data reporting updates

MilitaryConnectedStudentDescriptor and NeglectedDelinquentStudentDescriptor have been removed from StudentEducationOrganizationAssociations, with their data reported in StudentCharacteristicDescriptor.

PSSR-438828

StudentSchoolAssociations resource field updates

The EducationPlans field in the StudentSchoolAssociations resource has been updated to use the EducationPlansDescriptor for specific plans, and the QualifiedFor504Descriptor and IndividualPlanOfStudy fields have been removed to be reported in StudentCharacteristicDescriptor.

PSSR-440465

StudentSectionAssociations descriptor update

Data captured in Extension.CourseStatusDescriptor has been relocated to AttemptStatusDescriptor within the StudentSectionAssociations resource to align with updated compliance requirements.

PSSR-454255

Dyslexia records publishing update

Dyslexia records are published as Student Assessments to meet updated reporting requirements.