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Release Date: 8/30/22 ASCENDER Update: 6.1300
State Reporting > Extracts > Fall > Staff
❏ Modified the hard-coding for the field PF_STAFF_DEMO . STF_TYP so it will now pull from BHR_EMP_EMPLY . TSDS_STAFF_TYP.
State Reporting > Extracts > Fall > Student Extract
Modified the 2022-2023 Fall PEIMS Student Extract.
❏ Added FINANCIAL_AID_APP_CD to table PF_SCHOOL_LEAVERS.
❏ Added the following three fields to PF_STU_INDUST_CERT_SMR:
State Reporting > Extracts > Summer > Special Education
❏ Modified the program to add new data elements DYSLEXIA-INDICATOR-CODE and DYSLEXIA-SCREENING-EXCEPTION-REASON to the Student Demo record in the PEIMS Summer Student Extracts.
❏ The following extracts were updated:
State Reporting > Maintenance > Fall > Staff > Demo and Experience
❏ Updated the program for Experience to include Staff Type Code 4 records:
State Reporting > Maintenance > Fall > Student > Demo
❏ Modified the Miscellaneous section with the following changes:
State Reporting > Maintenance > Fall > Student > Leaver
❏ Modified the program to add an existing data element to Fall PEIMS - FINANCIAL-AID-APPLICATION-CODE (E1724)
❏ Modified the program to correct an issue that prevents clients from saving data when an error message is triggered.
State Reporting > Maintenance > Fall > Student > Industry Cert
❏ Modified the program with the following changes:
❏ Modified the program to add data element POST-SECONDARY-CERTIFICATION-LICENSURE-RESULT
❏ Modified the program to add existing data elements IBC-EXAM-FEE and IBC-VENDOR-CODE
State Reporting > Maintenance > Summer > Student > Demo
❏ Modified the program in the Status Indicators section to add a checkbox to Virtual Student Not in Membership.
❏ Modified the program in the Status Indicators section with the following:
State Reporting > Maintenance > Summer > Student
State Reporting > Maintenance > Fall > Student
❏ Modified the Industry Cert tab to allow four digits for the Certificate/Licensure certification ID.
State Reporting > Utilities > Create TSDS PEIMS Interchanges > Fall
❏ Modified the program to add new data element POST-SECONDARY-CERTIFICATION-LICENSURE-RESULT to the Student Interchange.
❏ Modified the program to add data element TX-FinancialAidApplicaton to Fall PEIMS Student Enrollment Interchange.
FINANCIAL-AID-APPLICATION-CODE (E1724) indicates the manner in which the student completed the graduation requirement of either completing a financial aid application (FAFSA or TAFSA) or submitting an exception.
State Reporting > Utilities > Create TSDS PEIMS Interchanges > Summer
❏ Modified the program to add data element TX-AdditionalDaysProgramIndicator to Summer PEIMS Education Organization Interchange.
ADDITIONAL-DAYS-PROGRAM-INDICATOR-CODE (E1671) indicates whether the campus offers an Additional Days School Year program to any students in prekindergarten through fifth grades as described in TEC Sec. 48.0051.
❏ Modified the program to add the following data elements to Summer PEIMS Student Interchange:
DYSLEXIA-INDICATOR-CODE (E1530) indicates whether a student is identified under TEC §48.009.
DYSLEXIA-SCREENING-EXCEPTION-REASON (E1732) is only reported and must be reported for students in kindergarten and first grade who have not been screened for dyslexia or related disorders (DYSLEXIA-RISK-CODE of “03”).
POST-SECONDARY-CERTIFICATION-LICENSURE-RESULT (E1733) indicates the result of a state, nationally, or internationally recognized industry-based certification exam taken by a student.
❏ Modified the program to add data element VIRTUAL-STUDENT-NOT-IN-MEMBERSHIP (E1735) (TX-VirtualStudentNotInMembership) to the PEIMS Summer submission.
The VIRTUAL-STUDENT-NOT-IN-MEMBERSHIP identifies students who spend at least half of their instructional time enrolled in virtual courses without the benefit of funding under ADA.
State Reporting > Utilities > Create TSDS Core Collections Interchanges
❏ Updated the Delay Reason complex type in Child Find - Student Program Interchange with the following:
❏ Updated the utility to use the BHR_EMP_EMPLY . TSDS_STAFF_TYP field for the Class Roster Fall Staff Association Interchange instead of hard-coding the 1 or 3 based on BHR_EMP_DEMO . NON_EMP.
❏ Updated the utility to add the HOME-LANGUAGE-CODE (E0895) (Code Table C092) (TX-HomeLanguage) element to the State Performance Plan Indicator 14 (SPPI-14) Student Parent Interchange.
The data will extract from the prior year record.
❏ Updated the Limited English Proficiency (LEP) codes 03 and 04 description for the Student Parent Interchange for Core Collections SELA, ECDS – PK, and ECDS – KG.
State Reporting > Utilities > TEA Census Block > Export Address
❏ Corrected an issue with the utility so it will filter and extract only those students who do not have a Census Block Number.
State Reporting > Reports
❏ Updated the LEP column header to EB in the following reports:
State Reporting > Reports > Fall > Student Report Group
❏ Modified the program to add the Student Industry Based Certification Data report for Fall PEIMS.
❏ Modified the Student Leaver Graduation Data report with the following changes:
State Reporting > Utilities > Create TSDS Core Collections Interchanges
❏ Modified the Core Collection Special Education Language Acquisition interchanges to include students who changed campuses.
A student will be reported at the most current campus of enrollment if that student has SELA records for the school year regardless of SELA campus, and if the student was enrolled at least one day in special education regardless of the SELA campus.
Prior Release Notes for ASCENDER 6.0
Release Date: 7/22/22 ASCENDER Update: 6.1200
End User License Agreement (EULA)
❏ Updated the verbiage in accordance with legal software EULA standards. All users will be prompted to accept the updated agreement.
State Reporting > Utilities > Create TSDS PEIMS Interchanges
❏ Removed the <TX-NumberOfBullyingIncidents> and <TX-NumberOfCyberbullyingIncidents> taglines from the Extended 1,2,3 Education Organization Interchanges as they should not be reported in the Extended Year submission. Previously, these taglines caused an error to occur when loading files in TSDS.
Release Date: 6/29/22 ASCENDER Update: 6.1100
State Reporting > Extract > Summer
❏ Modified the program to accept status changes that affect the grade level and eligibility code of a student.
If the student has an attendance record (at least one enrollment record with eligibility code other than 0 or 9), the extract will use the enrollment record with the most current entry date for the school year where the eligibility code is not 0 or 9 and the student is not excluded.
State Reporting > Maintenance > Summer > Student > Basic Attendance
❏ Corrected an issue that was causing values in the Res Fac Days field to round up to the nearest number when saved.
State Reporting > Utilities > Create TSDS PEIMS Interchanges
❏ Corrected an issue that was causing the file generated for <TX-TotalEligibleDaysPresent>23.0</TX-TotalEligibleDaysPresent> to insert two decimal places for Attendance causing the file to fail in the validator tool.
❏ Modified the program to add data element TX-FinancialAidApplicaton to Fall PEIMS Student Enrollment Interchange.
FINANCIAL-AID-APPLICATION-CODE (E1724) indicates the manner in which the student completed the graduation requirement of either completing a financial aid application (FAFSA or TAFSA) or submitting an exception.
State Reporting > Utilities > Create TSDS PEIMS Interchanges > Summer
❏ Modified the program to add data element TX-AdditionalDaysProgramIndicator to Summer PEIMS Education Organization Interchange.
ADDITIONAL-DAYS-PROGRAM-INDICATOR-CODE (E1671) indicates whether the campus offers an Additional Days School Year program to any students in prekindergarten through fifth grades as described in TEC Sec. 48.0051.
❏ Modified the program to add the following data elements to Summer PEIMS Student Interchange:
DYSLEXIA-INDICATOR-CODE (E1530) indicates whether a student is identified under TEC §48.009.
DYSLEXIA-SCREENING-EXCEPTION-REASON (E1732) is only reported and must be reported for students in kindergarten and first grade who have not been screened for dyslexia or related disorders (DYSLEXIA-RISK-CODE of “03”).
POST-SECONDARY-CERTIFICATION-LICENSURE-RESULT (E1733) indicates the result of a state, nationally, or internationally recognized industry-based certification exam taken by a student.
❏ Updated the Limited English Proficiency (LEP) codes 03 and 04 description for the Student Parent Interchange for Core Collections SELA, ECDS – PK, and ECDS – KG.
State Reporting > Utilities > Create TSDS Core Collections Interchanges > Child Find
❏ Modified the Child Find Collection Student Program Interchange to generate the StudentSpecialEdProgramAssociationExtension for non-enrolled SPPI-12 students.
State Reporting > Utilities > Create TSDS Core Collections Interchanges
❏ Modified the Core Collection Special Education Language Acquisition interchanges to include students who changed campuses.
A student will be reported at the most current campus of enrollment if that student has SELA records for the school year regardless of SELA campus, and if the student was enrolled at least one day in special education regardless of the SELA campus.
Release Date: 6/10/22 ASCENDER Update: 6.1005
State Reporting > Extracts > Summer
❏ Corrected an issue in the program where the Special Education Attendance extract is not calculating correctly when a student has a W/R Enroll status change that takes place before a Special Education status change within the same attendance reporting period.
Release Date: 6/3/22 ASCENDER Update: 6.1000
State Reporting > Extracts > Fall > Student
❏ Corrected an issue so students who meet criteria in the TEA codes listed in the Section Code Guide for Bilingual and English as a Second Language (ESL) Program Association. will extract without errors.
State Reporting > Extracts > Summer > Discipline
❏ Modified the extract logic to count Multi-Student incidents as one incident for the Bully and Cyberbully columns.
State Reporting > Maintenance > Organization > County District
❏ Modified the Operation Number field in the Child Care Partnership section to accommodate values up to 8 digits.
State Reporting > Maintenance > Summer > Student > CTE ATT
❏ Modified the program so CTE Attendance in the Summer Extract will correctly count the date when a teacher is withdrawn from a course/section.
❏ Modified the tab to allow rows to be deleted and/or updated when a student has more than one row with the same Campus, Track, Grade, and Report Period, but has a different Service ID.
State Reporting > Maintenance > Extended > Student > Course Completion
❏ Modified the error message for 43415-0024 to: DUAL-CREDIT-INDICATOR-CODE must be “1”, or SERVICE-ID must be a high school Career and Technical Education course (CTE Course = “H” in code table C022), or SERVICE-ID must be “CP110100” or “CP111200 (43415-0024).
❏ Removed the On-Ramps column.
State Reporting > Utilities > Create TSDS PEIMS Interchanges > Sumr1 - First Submission
❏ Corrected an issue with the Truancy Indicators extension in the Attendance Interchange where duplicate records were being generated for students scheduled at another campus.
❏ Modified the program to add logic to the Student Attendance Interchange to exclude a campus when the table element cr_demo.excl_dist_rptng = '1'. When a truancy indicator is set at an excluded campus, that indicator will be set to '0'.
State Reporting > Utilities > Create TSDS Core Collections Interchanges > Child Find
❏ Modified the interchanges so that date-spec-ed-elig-deter is within date range of 7/1/2021 and 06/30/2022. The student interchanges will now include non-enrolled students.
Additionally, the ellipsis search was updated to reflect the changes made to the Child Find interchanges.
❏ Modified the interchanges to account for Next Year Campus and Schedule Transfer utilities that are run prior to Child Find Interchange extractions.
State Reporting > Utilities > Create TSDS Core Collections Interchanges > Early Childhood Data System - PK
❏ Corrected an issue in the utility so that teachers not certified for PK will not be the ECDS PK Staff Interchange should not show a blank in the interchange file
The <TX-PKTeacherRequirement> tagline in the ECDS PK Staff Association Interchange will not generate if the teacher does not have a PK Teacher Requirement Code.
State Reporting > Utilities > Create TSDS Core Collections Interchanges > Special Education Language Acquisition
❏ Updated wording when running the Special Education Language Acquisition interchange from LangAcqServicesProvided > Indirect to LangAcqServicesProvided > Indirect/Consultative.
Release Date: 5/13/22 ASCENDER Update: 6.0900
State Reporting > Extracts > Summer > Attendance
❏ Corrected an error in the PEIMS Summer Attendance Extract that was omitting students that have left a campus, enrolled in another campus, but now have an Eligibility Code of 0.
State Reporting > Extracts > Summer > Attendance
❏ Modified the program to add ADA 9 Students to Summer extracts - Attendance.
State Reporting > Extracts > Summer > Discipline
❏ Modified the program to add ADA 9 Students to Summer extracts - Discipline.
State Reporting > Extracts > Summer > Restraint
❏ Modified the program to add ADA 9 Students to Summer extracts - Restraint.
State Reporting > Maintenance > Organization > Campus ID
❏ Corrected an issue in the program so the Discipline extract selected on State Reporting > Extracts > Summer will correctly extract the number of Bullying Incidents.
State Reporting > Maintenance > Summer > Student
❏ Modified the Basic Att tab to add logic to the Attendance Extract in order to verify that Elig Days Present is greater than zero after RS and RA days are subtracted.
Only when then number entered in Elig Days Present is greater than zero, is the Bil ESL Fund populated.
❏ Modified the program to remove invalid Summer PEIMS Rules from Maintenance > Summer > Student > Basic Att.
40100-0028 ADA-ELIGIBILITY-CODE must be blank.
42400-0078 If GRADE-LEVEL-CODE is “PK”-“02”, then RS-TOTAL-ELIGIBLE-DAYS-PRESENT must be 0.
42400-0079 If GRADE-LEVEL-CODE is “03”-“12”, then the last character of RS-TOTAL-ELIGIBLE-DAYS-PRESENT must be either “0” or “5”.
42400-0080 If GRADE-LEVEL-CODE is “KG”-“05”, then the last character of RA-TOTAL-ELIGIBLE-DAYS-PRESENT must be “0”.
42400-0081 If GRADE-LEVEL-CODE is “06”-“12”, then the last character of RA-TOTAL-ELIGIBLE-DAYS-PRESENT must be either “0” or “5”.
42401-0021 If GRADE-LEVEL-CODE is “PK”-“02”, then the following fields must be 0 or blank/not reported: RS-TOTAL-ELIG-BILINGUAL/ESL-DAYS-PRESENT, RS-TOTAL-ELIG-RESIDENTIAL-FACILITY-DAYS-PRESENT, RS-TOTAL-ELIG-PREG-REL-SVCS-DAYS-PRESENT, and RS-ELIG-SP-ED-MAINSTREAM-DAYS-PRESENT.
42401-0022 If GRADE-LEVEL-CODE is “03”-“12”, and if the following fields are not blank, then the last character of the following fields must be either “0” or “5”: RS-TOTAL-ELIG-BILINGUAL/ESL-DAYS-PRESENT, RS-TOTAL-ELIG-RESIDENTIAL-FACILITY-DAYS-PRESENT, RS-TOTAL-ELIG-PREG-REL-SVCS-DAYS-PRESENT, and RS-ELIG-SP-ED-MAINSTREAM-DAYS-PRESENT.
42401-0023 If GRADE-LEVEL-CODE is “KG”-“05”, and if the following fields are not blank, then the last character of the following fields must be “0”: RA-TOTAL-ELIG-BILINGUAL/ESL-DAYS-PRESENT, RA-TOTAL-ELIG-RESIDENTIAL-FACILITY-DAYS-PRESENT, RA-TOTAL-ELIG-PREG-REL-SVCS-DAYS-PRESENT, AND RA-ELIG-SP-ED-MAINSTREAM-DAYS-PRESENT.
42401-0024 If GRADE-LEVEL-CODE is “06”-“12”, and if the following fields are not blank, then the last character of the following fields must be either “0” or “5”: RA-TOTAL-ELIG-BILINGUAL/ESL-DAYS-PRESENT, RA-TOTAL-ELIG-RESIDENTIAL-FACILITY-DAYS-PRESENT, RA-TOTAL-ELIG-PREG-REL-SVCS-DAYS-PRESENT, and RA-ELIG-SP-ED-MAINSTREAM-DAYS-PRESENT.
42401-0026 For each Attendance data item, if GRADE-LEVEL-CODE is “EE”, “PK”, “KG”, “01”, “02”, or “03”, then RS-TOTAL-ELIG-PREG-REL-SVCS-DAYS-PRESENT and RA-TOTAL-ELIG-PREG-REL-SVCS-DAYS-PRESENT should be 0.0 or blank.
42400-0028 If GRADE-LEVEL-CODE is “PK” and PK-PROGRAM-TYPE-CODE is “01” or “03”, then PRIMARY-PK-FUNDING-SOURCE should be blank.
42400-0013 Basic Att - Bil ESL Days must not be greater than Elig Days Present (42400-0013).
42400-0014 Basic Att - PRS Days must not be greater than Elig Days Present.
42400-0015 Basic Att - Spec Ed Mainstream Days cannot be greater than Elig Days Present.
42400-0026 Basic Att - If Grade Level is PK and Inelig Days Present is greater than 0, then Primary PK Fund Source must not be blank (42400-0026).
42400-0072 Basic Att - If Elig Days Present is greater than 0 and Pk Program Type is 02, Primary Pk Funding Source must be 2, 4, or 5 (42400-0072).
42401-0005 Basic Att - If Bil ESL Days present is greater than 0 and Bil ESL Funding is 'BE' or 'D1', LEP must be 1 (42401-0005).
42401-0004 Basic Att - If Grade Level is EE then Bil ESL Days must be 0.
❏ Modified the program to remove invalid Summer PEIMS Rules from Maintenance > Summer > Student > Spec Ed Att.
40100-0028 ADA-ELIGIBILITY-CODE must be blank.
42405-0032 If GRADE-LEVEL-CODE is “PK”-“02”, then the following fields must be 0 or blank/not reported: RS-ELIGIBLE-DAYS-PRESENT-IN-INSTR-SETTING, and RS-EXCESS-HOURS-IN-INSTRUCTIONAL-SETTING.
42405-0033 If GRADE-LEVEL-CODE is “03”-“12”, and if RS-ELIGIBLE-DAYS-PRESENT-IN-INSTR-SETTING is not blank, then the last character must be either “0” or “5”.
42405-0034 If GRADE-LEVEL-CODE is “KG”-“05”, and if RA-ELIGIBLE-DAYS-PRESENT-IN-INSTR-SETTING is not blank, then the last character must be “0”.
42405-0035 If GRADE-LEVEL-CODE is “06”-“12”, and if RA-ELIGIBLE-DAYS-PRESENT-IN-INSTR-SETTING is not blank, then the last character must be either “0” or “5”.
❏ Removed the following:
Spec Ed Att - Instructional Setting or RS Instructional Setting or RA Instructional Setting is required
Spec Ed Att - Excess Hours must be between 0.000 and 540.000.
Spec Ed Att - Days Taught must be between 1 and 180.
❏ Modified the program to remove invalid Summer PEIMS Rules from Maintenance > Extended > Student > Demo.
40100-0025 CAMPUS-ID-OF-ACCOUNTABILITY and AS-OF-STATUS-CODE must be blank.
40100-0028 ADA-ELIGIBILITY-CODE must be blank.
40100-0094 EARLY-READING-INDICATOR-CODE and MILITARY-CONNECTED-STUDENT-CODE must be blank.
40100-0138 HOMELESS-STATUS-CODE and UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-STATUS-CODE must be blank.
State Reporting > Utilities > Create TSDS PEIMS Interchanges
❏ Modified the Summer Collection Student Attendance Interchange so the Student Truancy Extension will capture CAMPUS-ID-OF ENROLLMENT data.
Release Date: 3/10/22 ASCENDER Update: 6.0700
State Reporting > Maintenance > Organization
❏ Modified the program to allow an unlimited number of lines that can be added to tables on the following tabs:
State Reporting > Reports > Summer > CTE Attendance
❏ Modified the report with the following changes:
Removed
• Eligible Days V4
• RS Eligible Days V4
• RA Eligible Days V4
• Eligible Days V5
• RS Eligible Days V5
• RA Eligible Days V5
• Eligible Days V6
• RS Eligible Days V6
• RA Eligible Days V6
Added
• Service ID column
State Reporting > Reports > Summer > Discipline Data
❏ Modified the report with the following changes:
• Added a Inc header.
• Added a Nonmembership header.
State Reporting > Reports > Summer > Summer Student Demo Data
❏ Modified the report with the following changes:
• Removed the CTE header.
• Added Gen. Ed. Homebound header.
• Updated the LEP header to EB.
State Reporting > Extracts > Summer > Attendance
❏ Modified the program to improve the run time for the extract.
❏ Corrected the issue that was causing the Semester 1 extract to Fail.
State Reporting > Utilities > Import External File
❏ Modified the program to add Bullying Incidents and Cyberbullying Incidents columns to the file for the summer submission.
State Reporting > Utilities > Create TSDS Core Collections Interchanges > Class Roster - Winter
❏ Corrected an issue in the program so the Staff Association Interchange will not generate duplicate demo records for staff who are on the Master Schedule and have Role ID 087 responsibility record(s) in Personnel.
❏ Modified the Education Organization Interchange to collect Child Find data.
The interchange will consist of the following Extensions: LocalEducationAgencyExtension, SchoolExtension, Program.
❏ Modified the Education Organization Calendar Interchange to collect Child Find data.
The interchange will consist of the following Extensions: CalendarDateExtension and ReportingPeriodExtension.
❏ Modified the Student Parent Interchange to collect Child Find data.
The interchange will consist of the following Extension: StudentExtension.
❏ Modified the Student Enrollment Interchange to collect Child Find data.
The interchange will consist of the following Extension: StudentSchoolAssociationExtension.
❏ Modified the Student Program Interchange to collect Child Find data.
The interchange will consist of the following Extensions: StudentChildFindAssociationExtension and StudentSpecialEdProgramAssociationExtension.
Release Date: 2/4/22 ASCENDER Update: 6.0600
State Reporting > Extracts > Summer > Student > Attendance
❏ Modified Extracts 1 and 2 with the following changes:
- Removed logic for V4 - V6.
- Added Service ID, to extract to PF_CATE_ATTENDANCE, calculate CTE V1-V3 attendance for that Service ID.
State Reporting > Extracts > Summer > Course Extracts
❏ Modified all extracts to extract new Summer Submission Crisis Codes 10A and 10B.
State Reporting > Extracts > Summer > Discipline
❏ Modified the extract with the following changes:
- Bullying incidents = PEIMS Code 61
- Bullying incidents = PEIMS Code 61 and Cyber checkbox = 1
- 44425-0009 - DATE-OF-DISCIPLINARY-ACTION must not be equal to or greater than September 1, 2022
- 44425-0056 - If DISCIPLINARY-ACTION-REASON-CODE is “01” or “59”, then BEHAVIOR-LOCATION-CODE must be “01”.
- 44425-0059 - If DISCIPLINARY-ACTION-REASON-CODE is “11”, “12”, “14”, “16” - “19”, “30” - “32”, or “57”, then BEHAVIOR-LOCATION-CODE must be “01”, “02”, “03”, or “05”.
- 44425-0076 - If NON-MEMBERSHIP-DISCIPLINE-RESTRAINT-INDICATOR-CODE is “1”, then there must be a student program with a matching TX-UNIQUE-STUDENT-ID where SPECIAL-ED-INDICATOR-CODE is “1”.
State Reporting > Extracts > Summer > Flexible Attendance
❏ Modified the extracts with the following changes:
State Reporting > Extracts > Summer > Restraint
❏ Modified the extract with the following changes:
- 45435-0005 - If RESTRAINT-STAFF-TYPE-CODE is “01”, then SPECIAL-ED-INDICATOR-CODE must be “1”.
- 45435-0011
- 45435-0015
- 45435-0016
State Reporting > Extracts > Summer > Special Education
❏ Modified the extracts with the following changes:
State Reporting > Maintenance > Organization > County District
❏ Modified the program to add the Child Care Partnership section.
State Reporting > Maintenance > Organization > Campus ID
❏ Modified the program to add columns for Reported Bullying Incidents and Reported Cyberbullying Incidents.
State Reporting > Maintenance > Summer > Student > CTE ATT
❏ Updated the program with the following changes:
Removed
• Eligible Days V4
• RS Eligible Days V4
• RA Eligible Days V4
• Eligible Days V5
• RS Eligible Days V5
• RA Eligible Days V5
• Eligible Days V6
• RS Eligible Days V6
• RA Eligible Days V6
Added
• Service ID column
State Reporting > Maintenance > Summer > Student > Discipline
❏ Added a Nonmembership checkbox for the 2022 school year to accommodate the new data element NON-MEMBERSHIP-DISCIPLINE-RESTRAINT-INDICATOR-CODE which indicates that the discipline incident or restraint event being reported is for a special education student enrolled, not in membership.
State Reporting > Maintenance > Summer > Student > Restraint
❏ Added a Nonmembership checkbox for the 2022 school year to accommodate the new data element NON-MEMBERSHIP-DISCIPLINE-RESTRAINT-INDICATOR-CODE which indicates that the discipline incident or restraint event being reported is for a special education student enrolled, not in membership.
❏ Removed Instructional Setting and Primary Disability.
State Reporting > Maintenance > Summer > Student > Demo
❏ Modified the program with the following changes:
• Added logic for new Summer Submission Crisis Codes 10A and 10B to the Demographic Information section.
• Added Gen. Ed. Homebound with a checkbox to the Status Indicators section.
• Updated LEP to EB in the Miscellaneous section.
• Updated Section 504 Services to IEP/Sec 504 Svcs in the Miscellaneous section.
State Reporting > Utilities > Create TSDS PEIMS Interchanges > Summer
❏ Added new complex type, TX-CTEMultiplier, to the Summer PEIMS Student Attendance Interchange.
❏ Modified Summer Collection Student Discipline Interchange per the 2022 TWEDS mandates to add NON-MEMBERSHIP-DISCIPLINE-RESTRAINT-INDICATOR-CODE (E1725).
❏ Modified Summer Collection Student Restraint Interchange per the 2022 TWEDS mandates with the following changes:
• Added NON-MEMBERSHIP-DISCIPLINE-RESTRAINT-INDICATOR-CODE (E1725) (TX-NonMembershipDisciplineRestraintIndicator)
• Removed INSTRUCTIONAL-SETTING-CODE (E0173) (TX-InstructionalSetting)
• Removed PRIMARY-DISABILITY-CODE (E0041) (TX-PrimaryDisability)
State Reporting > Utilities > Create TSDS Core Collections Interchanges > Early Childhood Data System - PK
❏ Modified the program on State Reporting > Maintenance > Organization > County District to add logic so that the Family Engagement Plan Link section will not print an empty tagline when data is blank. This is no longer a Mandatory element for ECDS-PK.
❏ Added element CHILD-CARE-OPERATION-NUMBER (E1726) (TX-ChildCareOperationNumber) to the Education Organization Interchange.
State Reporting > Reports > Summer > Discipline Data
❏ Modified the report with the following changes:
• Added a Inc header.
• Added a Nonmembership header.
State Reporting > Reports > Summer > Restraint Data
❏ Modified the report with the following changes:
• Added a header for Nonmembership.
• Removed headers for Instructional Setting and Primary Disability.
Release Date: 1/10/22 ASCENDER Update: 6.0425
State Reporting > Utilities > Create TSDS Core Collections Interchanges
❏ Corrected a Program Error when searching for a Texas Unique Stu ID in the Selected Students ellipses for Early Childhood Data System - KG.
Release Date: 12/10/21 ASCENDER Update: 6.0400
State Reporting > Extracts > Fall > Student
❏ Corrected the program so it will not give an error when extracting data for students whose PK-ELIGIBLE-PREVIOUS-YEAR-INDICATOR-CODE is “1” and who is 4 or 5 as of September 1st.
State Reporting > Maintenance > Fall > Finance Budget
State Reporting > Maintenance > Mid Year > Finance Actual
❏ Corrected the issue that prevented users from creating account codes with a 99 function code and an 8XXX object code.
State Reporting > Maintenance > Fall > Student > Demo
❏ Removed code Special 40110-0126 - If a student's age on September 1 of the current school year is 5, and GRADE-LEVEL-CODE is “PK”, then ADA-ELIGIBILITY-CODE must be “4” or “5”.
State Reporting > Maintenance > Fall > Student > Enrollment
❏ Updated Fatal 40100-0193 - If PK-ELIGIBLE-PREVIOUS-YEAR-INDICATOR-CODE is “1”, then September 1 age must be 4 or 5.
State Reporting > Maintenance > Fall > Student > Demo
State Reporting > Maintenance > Summer > Student > Demo
State Reporting > Maintenance > Extended > Student > Demo screen
❏ Modified Crisis Code fields to allow up to 3 alpha-numeric characters (special characters are not allowed) to accommodate the new Crisis Codes added for the Summer Submission.
State Reporting > Utilities > Create TSDS Core Collections Interchanges
❏ Modified all interchanges in the Core Collection Early Childhood Data System - KG to include the 2022 Kindergarten Service ID changes.
❏ Modified the program so empty course sections and Staff Demo data will not generate to the Classroom Roster - Winter Staff, Master, and Education Organization interchanges.
❏ Updated the 2022 Class Roster - Winter Staff Association Interchange to add the TeacherSchoolAssociation complex type with elements TX-UNIQUE-STAFF-ID (E1524) and CAMPUS-ID (E0266) to generate for Personnel staff with a TIA Designation Code and Role ID 087 Responsibility record.
❏ Modified the program to change the Core Collection Winter and Fall drop-down menus from Classroom Roster to Class Roster.
❏ Modified Core Collection Classroom Roster - Winter to add the following elements to the StaffExtension.
Release Date: 11/4/21 ASCENDER Update: 6.0300
State Reporting > Crosswalks
❏ Corrected the scrolling and pagination on the page. Also, corrected the program to display the Unsaved Data Warning pop-up window when applicable.
State Reporting > Extracts > Summer
❏ Modified the Extracts below with the following updates for the RFT Mid-Point Check-In:
Extracts: Attendance 1 and 2, Course Completion, Discipline, Flexible Attendance, Restraint and Special Education
❏ Modified the Special Education Extract to include students with ADA Elig Cd '0' and Residential Facility Indicator of '1'.
State Reporting > Utilities > Create TSDS PEIMS Interchanges
❏ Modified the program for the 2022 Summer Student Program Interchange to revise elements in the StudentProgramExtension:
❏ Modified the program for the 2022 Summer Education Organization Interchange with the following:
Deleted the following data elements from the complex type and from TEDS and removed the data elements from the PEIMS Summer and Extended Year submissions:
Added complex type TXSchoolELOActivity and the following elements to the sub-complex type TX-SchoolELOType within the sub-complex type TX-SchoolELOS for the PEIMS Summer and Extended Year submissions:
Moved the existing element ELO-MINUTES-SCHEDULED-PER-DAY (E1621) (TX-ELOMinutesScheduledPerDay) from the sub-complex type TX-SchoolELOType to the sub-complex type TX-SchoolELOActivity for the PEIMS Summer and Extended Year submissions.
Added data elements to the Complex Type: School Extension for the PEIMS Summer submission:
NOTE: For the Residential Facility Tracker (RFT) mid-point check-in, due to TEA Dec 3, these values will default to 00000.
❏ Modified the program for the 2022 Summer Student Extension Interchange to add data element GENERAL-EDUCATION-HOMEBOUND-INDICATOR (E1730) (TX-GeneralEducationHomeboundIndicator).
State Reporting > Utilities > Create TSDS Core Collection Interchanges
❏ Modified the program to remove Complex Types that were causing the Core Collection Residential Facility Tracker Student Parent Interchange to fail the Validator Tool.
Release Date: 9/28/21 ASCENDER Update: 6.0200
❏ Updated color contrast for ease of readability to the following:
State Reporting > Extracts > Fall > Student
❏ Updated the extract for the 2022 school year with the following:
State Reporting > Maintenance > Fall > Student
❏ Added Parent Request Retention to the Status Indicators section on the Demo tab. This element indicates an enrolled student was retained at the request of the parent or guardian.
This information will be reported in Fall PEIMS for PK-12th graders.
❏ Modified LEP/English learner (EL) to display EB/English learner (EL) in the Bilingual/ESL section on the Enrollment tab.
State Reporting > Utilities > Create TSDS PEIMS Interchanges
❏ Modified the Fall Collection Student Interchange with the following:
❏ Modified the Summer Collection Student Interchange with the following:
State Reporting > Utilities > Create TSDS Core Collections Interchanges
❏ Modified Core Collection Early Childhood Data System - KG, Early Childhood Data System - PK, and Special Education Language Acquisition Student Parent Interchange to replace limited English proficient with emergent bilingual when the LimitedEnglishProficiency tagline is generated.
State Reporting > Utilities > Create TSDS Core Collections Interchanges > Charter School Waitlist
❏ Modified logic to generate the TX-NumberCharterStudentsEnrolled tagline with a value of 0 when a campus does not have any Charter students enrolled.
❏ Modified the program to generate the Student Parent Interchange and Student Enrollment Interchange based on the As-Of Date entered by the client. The As-Of Date refers back to the Charter School Admission Application Date.
State Reporting > Utilities > Create TSDS Core Collections Interchanges > Class Roster - Fall
❏ Modified Core Collection Class Roster - Fall to exclude EE, PK, and KG grade level courses from the Master Schedule Interchange.
State Reporting > Utilities > Create TSDS Core Collections Interchanges > Special Education Language Acquisition
❏ Updated interchange logic so that when LANG-ACQ-SERVICES-PROVIDED (E1662) is 00 - Services not Provided, then FREQUENCY-OF-SERVICES (E1663) and HOURS-SPENT-RECEIVING-SERVICES (E1664) will not be reported.
State Reporting > Utilities > Delete/Clear PEIMS Tables
❏ Added Census Block and a checkbox to the Fall Collection Student Data section that will delete census block data from the Fall Collection.
❏ Removed the Staff Data option from the Summer Collection section.
State Reporting > Reports > Fall > Student Report Group
❏ Modified the Fall Student Demo Data report for the 2021-2022 school year to add column heading P Req Reten and to remove column heading CTE.
Release Date: 9/15/21 ASCENDER Update: 6.0110
State Reporting > Utilities > Create TSDS PEIMS Interchanges
❏ Modified the program to allow the Student Enrollment Interchange to generate for students who are not participating in any Extended Year Program and who are Prior Year Bilingual/ESL Summer School only students.
Release Date: 9/12/21 ASCENDER Update: 6.0105
State Reporting > Extracts > Extended
❏ Modified the Student Enrollment Interchange on State Reporting > Utilities > Create TSDS PEIMS Interchanges to only create one record for an ADSY student for that student's campus of enrollment when the student attends the ADSY Program on a different campus.
❏ Corrected an issue that was preventing the ADSY Days Present/Absent from generating when running the extract.
Release Date: 9/3/21 ASCENDER Update: 6.0100
State Reporting > Crosswalks
❏ Added type ADP Additional Days School Year Courses to the Crosswalk Type drop-down menu.
State Reporting > Extracts > Extended > Additional Days School Year
❏ Modified the program to extract Staff Demo and Responsibility records when one or more of the Additional Days School Year (ADSY) staff has multiple current year rows with Role ID 087 and/or 047 in bhr_responsibility.
❏ Modified the program to attribute the student Additional Days School Year (ADSY) attendance to the correct campus when the student participated in the ADSY program at a campus other than the one where the student was enrolled.
State Reporting > Maintenance > Fall > Student
❏ Modified the Demo tab to allow the Student Census Block field to be edited with a 12-digit numeric value if the student qualifies.
State Reporting > Maintenance > Extended > Student
❏ Modified Demo to remove edit: 40110-0120 from Extended Year PEIMS. If Summer School Bil/ESL is not checked then Campus of Enrollment must be blank.
State Reporting > Utilities > Create TSDS Core Collections Interchanges
❏ Modified the Core Collection Special Education Language Acquisition (SELA) Student Parent Interchange to add data element ELIGIBILITY-DATE (E1723) under the Disability complex type.
ELIGIBILITY-DATE indicates the date upon which a student who is deaf or hard of hearing is eligible for services. This date may be outside of the current school year and will extract from the Entry Date on the SELA Services tab.
State Reporting > Utilities > TEA Census Block
❏ Modified Export Address for school year 2022 to include students with ADA Eligibility Code 9 who are economically disadvantaged and who are enrolled on the PEIMS Fall snapshot date.
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