eSchoolPlus Texas

May 2021 Minor Maintenance Release

These changes have been released in the following software versions unless otherwise noted in the release note:

  • ESP_19.4.39.0

  • ESP_19.11.31.0

  • ESP_20.4.24.0

  • ESP_21.4.1.0

Reference

Summary

Release Note

ESP-58742

Attendance Contact Hours

The Attendance Contact Hours calculation is updated to process the Economic Disadvantage Program (145).

ESP-58382

Course/Staff/Student Download

The PEIMS download is updated to calculate Bilingual Days Present for students with multiple Entry/Withdrawal data in a single reporting period in the 400 record.

ESP-58755

District/Campus Summary Report

The District/Campus Summary report is appended with the Economic Disadvantage program and Language program eligible days buckets for Early Education attendance totals.

ESP-54762

Incident Detail

The TSDS Action Fields pane is added with the Inconsistent Code of Conduct user-defined field. Select this field when out-of-school suspension, disciplinary alternative education program placement, or expulsion action is inconsistent with a local education agency’s student code of conduct.

Menu path: Incident Detail – select Incident – Offender Detail – Actions – TSDS Action Fields

ESP-59694

TEDS Extract

The RS/RA elements are suppressed when there are no RS/RA days for attendance event indicators 02 and 05 on the Special Programs Reporting Period Attendance complex type.

ESP-55135

TEDS Extract

The Student Program Extension is updated for the Pregnancy-related Services indicator and Special Education indicator when a student has zero (0) In-Person days, but has either RS or RA days.

ESP-58392

Truancy

The following updates have been made to the Truancy functionality:

  • Changed the Date Determined field to Excessive Absence Date Determined, and made the field not required.

  • Added Prevention Indicator Date to indicate that the LEA initiated a truancy prevention measure for the student.

  • Modified the truancy calculation and student truancy download to accommodate the Prevention Indicator Date field, and the existing field is no longer required.

ESP-59122

Truancy 10 Day Calculation

Truancy calculation is updated to process all intervals and the interval including the calculation date.