Grievance Reporting

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This page allows Local Education Agencies (LEAs) to track grievance issues reported by parents, students, staff, and community members. All school systems (except charter schools) must offer a formal grievance process and report this data during the PEIMS Summer Submission.

Per TEA guidelines, refer to the following local grievance policies for additional information:

DGBA (LOCAL): Employee grievances
FNG (LOCAL): Student and parent grievances
GF (LOCAL): Grievances from all others (including vendors and taxpayers)

Add or retrieve a record:

❏ Click Add to add a new grievance record.

❏ Retrieve an existing grievance record.

Verify that the school Year field is correct, if not, type the four-digit ending year of the desired school year (e.g., enter 2027 for the 2026–2027 school year) and click Retrieve to retrieve records for the specified school year.
If you know identifying information for the record, enter the Grievance ID or Description. Or, click Directory to open the Grievances directory for the specified school year.

Click Retrieve.

Under Grievance:

Field	Description
ID	Displays the grievance Identifier, which is a unique number associated to a particular grievance that has been filed in the applicable school year. This ID is auto-generated and cannot be edited.
Description	Type a description for the grievance filing. This is a required field.
Date Filed	Type the date that the overall grievance was filed with the LEA in the MM-DD-YYYY format. Or, select a date from the calendar. This is a required field.
Type	Click to select who filed the grievance. • PAR - Parent • STU - Student • EMP - Employee • INT - Internal • TXP - Tax Payer • VEN - Vendor • OTH - Other

Under Level Progression:

Delete	Click to delete the selected row. The row is shaded red to indicate that it will be deleted when the record is saved.
Level Type	Click to select the level (01-04) of grievance.
Resolution Date	Type the date the level of the grievance was resolved in the MM-DD-YYYY format. Or, select a date from the calendar.
Resolution Outcome	If a Resolution Date is entered, you must indicate a grievance resolution outcome (01-05).

Under Final Resolution:

Delete	Click to delete the selected row. The row is shaded red to indicate that it will be deleted when the record is saved.
Final Corrective Action	If a Date Resolved is entered, you must indicate the final corrective action (01-06) taken by the LEA based on the grievance filed.
Date Resolved	Type the date the overall grievance was resolved in the MM-DD-YYYY format. Or, select a date from the calendar.

Note: To save a grievance record, you must include a Level Progression or Final Resolution record, or both.

Click Save.

Other functions and features:

Add	Click to add a new grievance record.
Delete	Click to delete a retrieved grievance record.
	Click to delete the selected row. The row is shaded red to indicate that it will be deleted when the record is saved. Click Save. A message is displayed confirming that you want to delete the row. Click OK to delete the row. Click Cancel not to delete the row.