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Summary
Release Note
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Streamlined Data Collection: Removed outdated questions (NB-1) and Gender Identity sub-questions for HIBD-4, HIBD-5, and HIBD-6, moving them to the Deprecated Fields section to maintain historical records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Streamlined data collection: Deprecated these outdated questions and moved them to the Deprecated section: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-441065
Oklahoma Career Concentrator Program: Data Entry Update
PowerSchool has been updated to support data entry for the Oklahoma Career Concentrator program for the 2026–2027 school year. Administrators managing Oklahoma state reporting can now record yearly co-curricular program enrollments, track student focus areas, and record exit dates and reasons on the Compliance tab.
Prerequisites
Before entering student data, ensure a Student Program named Oklahoma Career Concentrator is set up at the District Office with:
Include in Quick Lookup checked
Qualifies as a State-specific program checked
What’s New
Data Entry Interface: Accessible under Courses and Programs > All Student Programs > Compliance when selecting the Oklahoma Career Concentrator program.
Placement Reason Options: Select the appropriate focus area from the list:
Technical Focus (CCTech)
Military Focus (CCMil)
College Focus (CCCol)
Program Exit Reason Options: The list includes existing codes along with the new SY 26–27 exit options:
18 – CTE certification earned
19 – College credit earned
20 – Associate's degree earned
21 – ASVAB test completed
The Program Exit Date publishes only when the Program Exit Reason has a value.
PSSR-449726
SIF Message Viewer Updates
The SIF Message Viewer page has been updated with a redesigned interface, enhanced message management tools, and direct navigation menu access for states using a SIF Unity.
Key Improvements
Direct Menu Navigation
The SIF Messages link now appears directly in the main navigation menu for any state configured with a SIF Unity profile, removing the need to manually enter the page URL.
Enhanced Page Usability
Message ID Column: Added a dedicated ID column to help identify messages easily.
Error Details: Added quick error visibility (column/popup) so users can inspect message error details instantly.
Table Sorting: Enabled sorting across table columns to easily organize and review messages.
Refresh Button: Added a Refresh button to update message status instantly without reloading the entire web page.
Message Deletion & Audit Logging
Delete Messages: Users can now delete SIF messages directly from the screen.
Audit Trail: Every message deletion is automatically logged in cst_publog as an informational entry for tracking and audit history.
PSSR-453153
Student Academic Record (SAR) Publsihing Update
An issue where publishing data under the Student Transcripts category in Data Exchange resulted in a backend staging error has been resolved.
What Was Fixed
Updated the underlying query and term-matching logic within the Student Academic Record (SAR) process.
Resolved backend staging query errors that prevented transcript records from compiling and publishing.
Action Required: Following the installation of release 26.9.2.0, navigate to Data Exchange > Student Transcripts and republish the category.
Optimized the database extraction and transformation queries used in the Transcripts (Student Academic Record) data publishing process. This update significantly reduces background processing times and queue delays for state reporting submissions in medium and large school districts.
Key Improvements
Query & Join Optimization: Streamlined data retrieval for attendance history, enrollment history, course marks, and term performance rules by replacing repetitive per-row function calls and full table scans with reusable, scoped table joins.
GUID Format Consistency: Corrected internal reference ID formatting (SchoolAttendedRefId) to ensure consistent, standard Global Unique Identifier (GUID) formatting during data extraction.
Key Results
Faster Publishing Times: Overall transcript batch publishing duration is reduced by approximately 30% (reducing total end-to-end processing time from over an hour down to ~42 minutes across full district runs).
Reduced Queue Delays: Processing for small and medium-sized schools now completes in seconds to under a minute, allowing subsequent state publishing jobs to start much sooner.
100% Data Parity: Improvements are internal to the Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) layer and produce identical published transcript records with no impact on reported data accuracy.
