}Directory Updates: check, double-check, & triple-check
}Students moving buildings (elementary to middle), their miles transported & Transportation FTE may change
}ENRL: Watch for students in multiple buildings in the same  district or different districts (new KIDS report)
}EXIT: both D28 & D30 with value of 8-should be rare
}Data Quality in the LPR will be critical to successful SCRS submissions
}PBR & SO66 will be upgraded next fall
}KAMS Students
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Directory Updates: The Directory Application is a critical source of building level data that is used for several other KSDE applications including, KIDS, PBR, SO66, and will be used by other applications. It was originally designed for creating the educational directory but has become the authority about building level data. Often what is entered in this application will lock out other applications.

One common Audit Exception we saw last year happens when students move buildings, they don’t physically change their permanent address but when they move from one building to the next, that can have a huge impact on how far they ride the bus. Most staff catch address changes and check Transportation FTE, but we had several cases this year where the kid didn’t move, they just moved from elementary to middle but the SIS reported incorrect transportation information on those students.

Another thing found by many auditors last year were students being claimed by several buildings in the same district for ENRL funding. So a new KIDS report will be available so districts can use that report to watch for possible duplications of students who may move between buildings in the same district at the beginning of the school year. This report will also show students in multiple districts if an ENRL record was successfully submitted by both districts.

Every year, we hear of a school or district that had their school, district, or state entry dates inadvertently reset to the first day of school when the SIS rollover to move all students up a grade level occurs. Anyone who has spent time running student history reports, submitting QERY records, or trying to verify those critical entry dates can attest to how valuable that data is and to make sure it is not impacted by rolling over data in the SIS. To safeguard against this, you may even want to pull a report out of your SIS that has school district and state entry dates for your students before starting the rollover process to archive this data.

Graduation/Drop Summary Report: Several schools reported something unusual. We saw a lot of schools reporting students as graduating with diplomas but that entire classes of graduates had “unknown post-graduation plans” on their Graduation Drop-Out Summary Report for Post Graduation PlansIf 8 or 9 is reported in D28, you should be reporting 1-7 on D30. It should be rare that students are EXITed with an 8 in both fields.

For those of you who may be working with the SCRS Collection, that new KIDS Collection next year, if you are not familiar with the LPR, the licensed personnel report, you will want to be prepared that reporting student course information will be shaped by the data reported on the LPR.

You should also prepare that the PBR and SO66 reports (those two reports Administrators must submit next year for funding) are going to be re-written and will look different next fall. So you will want to submit your ENRL records as soon as the submission window opens to give school and district staff as much time as possible to work with the re-designed PBR & SO66 Reports.

One final thing I was asked to share with you is regarding KAMS students. There were several cases where these students were reported incorrectly. If you have KAMS students, there is a separate guidance document on the KIDS website where you can obtain more information.