MA DESE Guidance for Entering Homeless and Foster Care Student Data (2017-18)

NEW for 2017-18: SIF districts do not need to do manual entry

Starting in the 2017-18 collection, SIF districts do not need to manually enter homeless and foster care student information into the Security Portal application, unless it is to edit or correct data that was transmitted in error.

For districts that are live in SIF, the information should be entered into the district SIS, and that data will be transmitted to ESE automatically via the SIF agent. The data that is transmitted via SIF will be populated in the homeless and foster care student application. Districts can go to the homeless application to verify, review, edit, or correct the data at any point in the school year.

iPass:

iPass provides SIF Districts with data fields on the Student's MA DOE screen and Confidential screen to report their Homeless, Foster Care, Dwelling Arrangement and Unaccommpanied Youth status via SIF transmission. These data elements are sent in the SIF StudentPersonal Object.

When should homeless and foster care students be reported?

Once a student is entered:

** Attached please find the Massaschusetts DESE Guidance for Entering Homeless and Foster Care Student Data. **


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Last updated: 17 Oct, 2017
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