MN State Reporting News You Can Use

School Calendars and Inclement WeatherFollowing are typical questions raised by schools with emergency late starts, early closings and canceled school days.  You can find the responses to each of these questions in the January MARSS Memo 18.01 (link provided below). How do I mark a day when school was canceled?                             &nbs...

MDE partners with Tri-Valley Opportunity Council to identify and recruit eligible migrant students throughout Minnesota. A recruiter from Tri-Valley Opportunity Council (TVOC) may be contacting you about the Minnesota Migrant Education Program (MMEP). The TVOC recruiters are available to determine eligibility for students who may be migrant in your school district. For more information about MMEP, Migrant Surveys and other resources, please contact Cris Young (christine.young@tvoc.org) or Claudi...

This data is based on the prior year’s October 1 enrollments and counts of students eligible for the free or reduced-price meal program. From the final Fall FY 2018 MARSS data, MDE will generate the October 1, 2017, counts that will be used to calculate FY 2019 compensatory revenue. For first year charter schools, these counts will be used for both FY 2018 and FY 2019 compensatory revenue. Therefore, it is critical that schools edit these data thoroughly during the fall MARSS reporting cyc...

Whether or not the school participates in the Community Eligibility Provision Program, Direct Certification can also be used to certify students as eligible for the free meal program. Direct Certification is a process by which a file of eligible children is provided to MDE by the Department of Human Services (DHS) and is matched to MARSS enrollment records.