PowerSchool SIS Minnesota

State Reporting 26.9.3.0 Release Notes

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Summary

Release Note

PSSR-451186

All States/Provinces: Student Program Change History Update

Resolved an issue where the Change History link for the Student Programs category would not enable unless another category was also selected. The link now correctly activates immediately upon enabling the Student Programs category.

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  • Streamlined data collection: Removed outdated NB-1 questions and moved Gender Identity sub-questions for HIBD-4, HIBD-5, and HIBD-6 to the Deprecated Fields section to keep historical records and simplify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

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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-432691

DEX: MCCC Direct Pay Course and Grades Update

Previously, when districts entered Minnesota Common Course Catalogue (MCCC) Direct Pay courses and associated grades in Historical Grades, the grades would publish to the Minnesota Ed-Fi Operational Data Store (ODS) but would not appear in the certification data. This was due to inverted data mapping in the CourseCourseAssociation resource and the publishing of the state organization reference.

The CourseCourseAssociation publishing logic has been updated to ensure all Direct Pay course association records adhere to the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) Ed-Fi specification, correctly referencing the state education organization ID (999999000).

Key Fixes:

  • Resolved mapping in the CourseCourseAssociation resource to ensure parent/child course references publish in the required sequence.

  • Ensured educationOrganizationId for toCourseReference consistently points to the State Education Organization ID (999999000).

  • Verified that both semester-term and full-year Direct Pay stored grades publish as expected.

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-430054

Ed-Fi: Student Grades Publishing

Previously, when publishing Student Grades for students who dropped and subsequently re-enrolled in the same course section within the same school year, data publishing could fail with a 409 Conflict error ("The value supplied for the related 'studentSectionAssociation' resource does not exist"). This occurred because the grade record referenced the start date of the student's initial (withdrawn) enrollment rather than the active re-enrollment.

The Student Grades publishing logic has been updated to reference the begin date of the student's latest active section enrollment. Student grades now correctly link to the published studentSectionAssociation record and publish to the Minnesota Ed-Fi ODS without error.

Action Required:
After applying this update, navigate to Data Exchange > Publishing (or the student's Data & Reporting > Data Exchange page) and republish the affected Student Grades records.