MN State Reporting News You Can Use

District Assessment Coordinators continue to work in Pretest Editing to prepare for testing this spring. To add students for online testing who have enrolled since the last MARSS submission, MARSS updates typically need to be submitted to Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) at least two business days prior to testing. New students can continue to be uploaded in the MARSS files through the end of the testing windows in May as needed. Early Childhood Screening (ECS)1.  Each year Earl...

MARSS WES Opens on Jan 8, 2018- Through summer 2018, a district’s most recent submission will be provided to the testing vendors to update student enrollment and eligibility information for assessments and reporting. ** At this time the ADM that appears on the MARSS24 details report is calculated with a local edit only and should be used for comparison reasons only.  Once all edits are activated in April, the ADM’s should become more accurate.**Wed Mar 22 = is the first &ld...

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.