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• Streamlined Data Collection: Removed outdated questions (NB-1) and Gender Identity sub-questions for HIBD-4, HIBD-5, and HIBD-6, moving them to the Deprecated Fields section to maintain historical records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• Streamlined data collection: Deprecated these outdated questions and moved them to the Deprecated section: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-446348

Attendance Extract - SPED Exit Date on Previous Enrollment

A Student's Special Education Exit Date only submits when their Special Education Indicator is 2-Exited or 3-Exited SPED and placed in Code 504 for that enrollment span.

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