State Reporting 26.9.3.0 Release Notes

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• Streamlined data collection: Removed outdated NB-1 questions and moved Gender Identity sub-questions for HIBD-4, HIBD-5, and HIBD-6 to the Deprecated Fields section to keep historical records and simplify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-441067

Career Concentrator Program Data Viewer (New)

To support Oklahoma Department of Education reporting requirements for School Year 2026–2027, the Data Viewer (Special Data Viewer) has been updated to include a dedicated view for the Career Concentrator Program under the Student Participation resource.

This update enables administrators to view, inspect, filter, and export published co-curricular program enrollment records—including focus areas, placement reasons, start/exit dates, and exit reasons.

What’s New

1. New Career Concentrator View in Special Data Viewer:

   • Administrators can now select the Career Concentrator Program view under Data Viewer > Student Participation (Special Programs category).

   • Displays all published co-curricular program enrollment records for the 2026–2027 school year from the SIF Unity StudentParticipation resource.

2. Column Display & Data Mapping:
   The Data Viewer table displays the following fields:

   • School Name & Student Identifiers: School Name, Student Number (Local ID), Student Name, and State Identifier (STN).

   • Program Identification:

     • Program Name: Displays Oklahoma Career Concentrator

     • Program Type Code: Displays 04931 (Co-curricular Programs)

     • Program Type Other Code (Focus Area): Displays 0309 (Career Tech Focus), 1507 (Military Focus), or 1600 (College Focus)

     • Program Placement Reason: Displays CCTech (Career Tech Focus), CCMil (Military Focus), or CCCol (College Focus)

   • Program Dates: Program Start Date (StudentParticipationAsOfDate) and Program Exit Date (ProgramExitDate).

   • Program Exit Reason: Displays exit codes and descriptions, including new SY 26–27 exit codes:

   • Publishing Metadata: Last Publish Date, Publishing ID, and Resource ID (RefID).

3. Data Grid & Export Functions:

   • Standard table filtering, sorting, and export capabilities are fully supported across all Career Concentrator Program columns.

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-423414

DEX: Student Participation Data Viewer Update

On the Data Publishing page of the student, the Student Participation summary now includes both the Exit Date and Exit Reason whenever a student has exited the program. Field labels have been streamlined -e.g., (Prog Name), (Prog Type), (Entry Date), (Exit Date), (Exit Reason)- to ensure all information fits cleanly on the screen without horizontal scrolling or text truncation.

Navigation Path: People > Students > Student Search (select student) > Data & Reporting > Data Exchange > Publishing

PSSR-416119

SIF Unity: Automatic Change Detection for Lunch History

PowerSchool now automatically detects and publishes updates made to student Lunch History records for the current school year to the Oklahoma Wave/State ODS. Administrators no longer need to perform a full manual republish to sync lunch status or economic disadvantage changes made through the Lunch History page.

What’s New

• Automated Publishing via Data Change Framework (DCF):

  • Change detection is now extended to the Lunch History table (S_STU_LUNCH_C).

  • Editing or adding lunch records (including Lunch Status, Start/End Dates, Reported Value, Economic Disadvantage Value, Lunch Eligibility, School ID, or Notes) immediately triggers an automated update to the state.

• Affected Programs:

  • Lunch Program (Free/Reduced): Program Type Other Codes: S010–S015.

  • Economic Disadvantage: Program Type Other Code 0900.

• Current and Historical Record Synchronization:

  • The most current lunch record continues to publish from the student record, while historical records publish directly from Lunch History.

  • Unique reference identifiers (RefIDs) transition consistently as active records move into history, preventing duplicate or deleted StudentParticipation records at the state.

This automation triggers whenever student lunch or economic disadvantage information on the Lunch History page changes, automatically queuing and publishing the update to the Oklahoma Wave/State ODS.

PSSR-441072

SIF Unity: Student Attendance Summary Update

To support the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) Wave reporting requirements for School Year 2026–2027, the SIF Unity StudentAttendanceSummary publishing profile has been updated to include and dynamically report the extended TimePeriod element.

What’s New

• Automatic TimePeriod Determination:

  • FQSR (First Quarter Statistical Report): When publishing data prior to January 1 of the current school year, the TimePeriod extended element automatically publishes as FQSR.

  • ASR (Annual Statistical Report): When publishing data on or after January 1 of the current school year, the TimePeriod extended element publishes as ASR.

• Full-Year / Multi-Enrollment Rollover:

  • Attendance records associated with the first 9 weeks of school that are part of full-year reporting are updated to reflect ASR when published after January 1.

• Attendance Summary Data Viewer:

  • The Attendance Summary Data Viewer now displays the updated Time Period field (FQSR / ASR) for published student attendance summary records, providing administrators clear visibility before and after transmission.

Action Required

• Districts must run a “Publish All” operation for Student Attendance Summary once after applying the update.

• PowerSchool recommends that you do that after the first quarter has ended so that OSDE receives a full sync of the student’s attendance summary data.

PSSR-453780

SIF Unity: Student Participation > Lunch and Economic Disadvantaged Programs Update

Previously, when submitting student participation records to the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE), students flagged with Lunch Eligibility of FR20 (Economic Disadvantaged by Income Survey / Form, but paying full price) published a National School Lunch Program record (04922). Because code FR20 signifies economic disadvantage without Free or Reduced meal eligibility, only the Economic Disadvantaged program (0900) should be reported, unless specific school meal provisions apply.

Therefore, the Student Participation publishing logic has been updated to correctly align with Oklahoma state reporting rules:

• Traditional Enrollment (No Override): Students with Lunch Eligibility code FR20 (or 20) will now publish only the Economic Disadvantaged program record (0900) with placement reason FR20. The National School Lunch Program record (04922) is excluded.

• Community Eligibility / Provision Overrides: If a student with Lunch Eligibility code FR20 has an active Lunch Status Override set to Community Eligible (CE), Provision 2 (PR2), or Provision 3 (PR3):

  • The student continues to publish the Economic Disadvantaged program (0900) with placement reason FR20.

  • The student also publishes the National School Lunch Program (04922) with placement reason FRNA.

• Standard Free / Reduced Codes: Students with eligible Free or Reduced lunch codes (e.g., FR01, FR03, FR08, FR10, FR12, etc.) continue to publish the National School Lunch Program (04922) and the Economic Disadvantaged program (0900) as expected.

User Impact & Action Required

• No data entry changes are required by district administrators.

• In the DEX > Data Viewer > Student Participation view, records for students with code FR20 will reflect the updated inclusion/exclusion rules.

• Any status transitions between FR20 and eligible meal codes will automatically be processed and synchronized with OSDE WAVE via the Data Change Framework (DCF).

PSSR-441066

SIF Unity: Student Programs > Career Concentrator Publishing

To support Oklahoma state compliance requirements for the 2026–2027 school year, SIF Unity data publishing for the Student Participation resource has been updated for students enrolled in the Oklahoma Career Concentrator program.

What’s new:

• Program Type & Placement Reason Mappings:

  • When publishing records for the Oklahoma Career Concentrator program, the Program Type Code is published as 04931 (Co-curricular Programs).

  • Program Placement Reason selections correctly map and publish to the respective Program Type Other Code values:

    • CCTech (Career Tech Focus) publishes code 0309

    • CCMil (Military Focus) publishes code 1507

    • CCCol (College Focus) publishes code 1600

• Program Exit Reasons for 2026–2027:

  • Support has been added for the new state-defined Program Exit Reason codes:

    • 18 – CTE certification earned

    • 19 – College credit earned

    • 20 – Associate's degree earned

    • 21 – ASVAB test completed

• Data Viewer:

  • Published Career Concentrator elements display in the standard Student Programs Data Viewer.

PSSR-441073

Student Core Curriculum Indicator Update

In accordance with Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) submission requirements for the 2026–2027 school year, the Core Curriculum Indicator data entry and publishing have been updated in PowerSchool SIS.

What’s New

1. Data Entry:

   1. New Core Curriculum Indicator Option Added:2030 = Expected to graduate in 2030 or later

   2. The new 2030 option is now available across all relevant student state compliance and enrollment screens:

      1. State / Province - OK: Start Page > Student Selection > State/Province - OK (under Compliance > Student Details)

      2. Enroll New Student: Start Page > Enroll New Student

      3. Student Re-Enrollment: Start Page > Student Selection > Functions > Re-Enroll in School

      4. Edit Enrollment / Transfer: Start Page > Student Selection > Enrollment > Edit Current / Previous Enrollment and Transfer Student pages

2. Data Publishing:

   • The StudentPersonal publishing has been updated to handle the2030 code.

   • Prior cohort codes -CPW, CORE, AltStd- remain fully supported for current and historical reporting.

Action Required

For students in the applicable cohort entering the 2026–2027 school year, navigate to the student's State/Province - OK page or update the field during enrollment to select 2030 - Expected to graduate in 2030 or later.