ASCENDER State Reporting Release Notes

Prior Release Notes for ASCENDER 8.0

ASCENDER 8.0100

Release Date: 9/11/23 ASCENDER Update: 8.0100

State Reporting > Extracts > Fall > Student

❏ Modified the program to allow duplicate Industry Based Certifications to extract to State Reporting.

State Reporting > Maintenance > Organization > County District

❏ Modified the program to remove the Child Care Partnership group box from the page.

State Reporting > Maintenance > Fall > Student > Leaver

❏ Modified the page to add a Tx First Early HS Completion Pgm field.

State Reporting > Maintenance > Fall > Student > Industry Cert

❏ Modified the program to allow duplicate entries in the Industry Certifications group box.

State Reporting > Utilities > Create TSDS Core Collections Interchanges > Early Childhood Data System- PK

❏ Made the following changes to the Education Organization Interchange core collection:

Removed sub-complex type CHILD-CARE-OPERATION-NUMBER (E1726)(TXChidCareOperationNumber) and the included data element.
Added existing data element PROGRAM-EVALUATION-TYPE (E1626) (TX-ProgramEvaluationType) to the complex type as optional (Y).

State Reporting > Utilities > Create TSDS Core Collections Interchanges > Early Childhood Data System- PK

❏ Made the following changes to the Master Schedule Interchange core collection:

Removed data element PROGRAM-EVALUATION-TYPE (E1626) (TX-ProgramEvaluationType).
Added existing data element CHILD-CARE-OPERATION-NUMBER (E1726) (TX-ChildCareOperationNumber) to the complex type as optional (Y) for the ECDS Prekindergarten Submission.

State Reporting > Utilities > Create TSDS Core Collections Interchanges > Special Education Language Acquisition

❏ Made the following changes to the Student Program Interchange core collection for the 2024 school year and beyond:

Revised TOOL-OR-ASSESSMENT-USED (E1668) (TX-ToolOrAssessmentUsed) to use codes and descriptions from Code Table DC166 instead of Code Table DC162.

State Reporting > Utilities > Create TSDS Core Collections Interchanges > Child Find

❏ Modified StudentChildFindAssociationExtension with the following changes:

Made TX-ECITransitionConferenceDatto be no longer mandatory.
Deleted TX-ParentalConsentDate.
Added elements TX-OriginalECIServiceDate and TX-ConsentToEvaluationReceivedDate.
Made TX-ConsentToEvaluationReceivedDatemandatory.
SPPI-11: data is now extracted from SR_STU_SPPI11.DT_CONSENT_EVAL_RCVD.
SPPI-12: data is now extracted from SR_STU_SPPI12.DT_CONSENT_EVAL_RCVD.
Deleted the StudentSpecialEdProgramAssociationExtension from the interchange.