State Reporting 26.7.1.0 Release Notes

PSSR-381128

All States: Change history for Student Programs

Change History functionality is now available on the Student Programs page, enabling tracking of updates to key fields.

A new category has been added to the Student Program Change History page to monitor changes to Entry Date, Exit Date, SP Comment, Program, Exit Reason, and Grade Level.

Note: This functionality is not applicable to the State-specific Student Program pages.

PSSR-437955

All States: NCEA 2026-2027 Data collection Updates

Additional Reference: PSSR-437527

The NCEA data collection has received the following updates to conform to the 26-27 specifications.
Updated Screens

• School Management → Academics → School Information for NCEA Reporting

• District Management → District Setup → General → District Information for NCEA Reporting

Following New Fields has been added

• Building Type (Added for School Information data collection)

  • Early Childhood Center

  • Elementary

  • Secondary

  • (P)K - 12

    Note: This field must be populated in order for that building to be represented in the report output. In addition to this new field, updates have been made to existing district-level data elements so they can be populated for each of the four Building Type values.

• To the best of your knowledge, of the principals not returning, how many are remaining in Catholic education? (Added for Diocese Information screen)

  • This data is to be populated for each of the four Building Type values.

• Reason for Superintendent Change (Added for Diocese Information data collection)

  • This question is added to the existing question, if the diocese hired a new superintendent since last year is Yes

• To the best of your knowledge, of the teachers not returning, how many are remaining in Catholic education? (Added for School Information data collection)

• Number of students who were newly baptized Catholic or received full communion during the 2025-2026 school year. Exclude students already baptized Catholic who completed first communion or confirmation (Added for School Information data collection)

PSSR-438974

New - Incident Management Data Verification/Validation Report

A new Incident Management Data Verification/Validation Report is now available on the Compliance Reports tab. This report can be used to verify and validate the discipline data that has been entered into PowerSchool and also what should publish to NOVA.

this report pull the following data for each incident in the output:

• Incident ID

• Incident Type

• Incident Title

• Incident Date

• Incident Time

• Participant Full Name

• Participant Type

• Participant Role

• Behavior

• Behavior Subcode

• Action

• Action Dates

• Duration Code

• Action Subcode & Dates

• Incident School Abbreviation

• Issue Check

  • This column will return a blank, 1, or 2 depending on the presence of any issues with the incident:

    • Blank - No detected issues with the incident data and it was entered correctly.

    • 1 - An action is present that is not linked to a behavior.

    • 2 - A behavior doesn’t have an action.

PSSR-438341

NOVA - Grades publishing for students re-enrolled into the same section

The Grades publish is updated and now, when a student is dropped and re-enrolled in the same section, the grade associated with the section enrollment will publish successfully.

PSSR-436122

NOVA - WeaponTypeDescriptor logic update for Multiple Firearms

The disciplineIncident publishing logic has been updated and will not publish the Multiple Firearms weaponTypeDescriptor when selected in the incident attributes.