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TN 2025-26 Updates

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    • SPD12 - To indicate when a student is listed as being in grade 12 but has not yet graduated, specifically for SPED instructional grades for students aged 18 to 22

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    • SN - SNAP recipient

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    • TO - TANF recipient

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    • X – Free Lunch by application

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    • Y – Reduced Lunch by application

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    • JDC18 - students placed in out-of-state JDCs

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Student Classifications – New

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    • J - districts won't be able to submit "J" classification ONLY starting 2025-2026 school year. No impact on prior year updates/reporting. ED Definition going forward: SN(SNAP), TO(TANF), FOS01(Foster Care), H(Homeless), I(Migrant), U(Runaway)

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    • JDC07 - IDEA team confirmed that they are the only team that uses this coding and it will be unnecessary going forward.

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Student Classifications – Retired

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    • Districts have been enrolling SPED service-only students through various methods, such as placing them in shell schools or assigning them to incorrect primary schools. These inconsistent enrollment practices create challenges in tracking and reporting accurate data for SPED services.

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    • Implementing a designated "shell school" for each district would simplify and standardize the enrollment process for SPED students. A shell school would serve as a dedicated space for enrolling students who only receive special education services, without assigning them to a specific primary school. This would help ensure that data reporting is more accurate, consistent.

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    • No change for SIS - School numbers and type will be determined by SDE team/product team

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SPED Service Only Enrollments

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    • The grade 'N' is no longer used for reporting purposes. SPED students options 7, 8, or 9 will now be reported under regular instructional grade

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    • No changes to state reporting from SIS. However, current/future reports will be updated to not to group these students under N grade.

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Removal of N Grade

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    • When a student's instructional grade is changed, a new enrollment record will be created in EdFi, as the instructional grade is part of the enrollment key.

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    • Since the student is not actually withdrawn but rather it is a grade change, a new code will be implemented to clearly distinguish between a grade change and an actual withdrawal.

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New Withdrawal Reason 18 – Instructional Grade Change

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    • When a student's instructional grade is changed, a new enrollment record will be created in EdFi, as the instructional grade is part of the enrollment key.

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    • Since the student is not actually withdrawn but rather it is a grade change, a new code will be implemented to clearly distinguish between a grade change and an actual withdrawal.

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New Withdrawal Reason 18 – Instructional Grade Change

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    • 001625 BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY PROVO UT

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    • 003584 LETOURNEAU UNIVERSITY LONGVIEW TX

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    • 015022 SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN (SCAD) SAVANNAH GA

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    • 003252 DELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITY DOYLESTOWN PA

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New Post-Secondary Institutions Added

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    • The district calendar will be sent to EIS for 2025-26.

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    • District calendars are not sent to Ed-Fi, only school calendars.

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    • Scheduled Task added by PR 6077714

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District Calendar

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    • PR 6101395 - Bell Schedules that are not assigned to the calendar days are not sending correctly on the bellSchedule endpoint. This PR will update to send the dates for bell schedules assigned to a class section.

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    • PR 6101089 – Update the logic for studentAttendanceAssociation to send an SSD record for each enrollment.

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    • PR 6107599 - Update studentSchoolAssociation to send the entry date as entered. The enrollment date for students enrolled prior to calendar start is sending differently on the studentSchoolAssociation for Ed-Fi and 041 Student Enrollment for EIS.

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Ed-Fi PRs

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    • PR 6104715 - Update section endpoint to send mediumOfInstructionDescriptor and educationalEnvironmentDescriptor correctly when TN button has default Traditional values for Class Type and Teaching Method.

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    • PR 6108477 - When selecting a student in Data by Subject and Request Individual IDs from API, allow users to use State ID/Legacy ID. Add state ID to student browse for student selection in Data by Subject and Request Individual IDs from API.

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    • PR 6089037 - When students have an enrollment in more than one entity, only one student record should generate.

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Ed-Fi PRs

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    • PR 5973037 - Update courseTranscript to only report courses with the educational organizational ID that it was recorded in. Corrects the error for records with courseCode T01, T02, T03 “The value supplied for the related 'course’ resource does not exist.” Will also update course Transcript to send both the finalLetterGradeEarned and finalNumericGradeEarned.

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    • PR 5967689 - Update Mass Request IDs from API to honor the Do Not Include For Ed-Fi option on Staff.

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Ed-Fi PRs

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    • There will be a Webex to walk everyone through cloning over the Ed-Fi Setup for 2025-26.

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    • We will continue to have Q&A sessions for 2025-26 at least bi-weekly.

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Ed-Fi 2025-26

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