REMINDER: Membership February Certification Closes Today

Certification Ends TODAY, Friday, Feb 13, 2026 at 4:00 pm ET.

NEW: Certification/Signoff Procedure

NOTE: LEA Admin must complete certification procedure first

1. Navigate to Certify page

2. Click ‘Review and Certify’ button

3. Review each dataset listed on the menu on the left side of the page, check each dataset box indicating ‘I have reviewed and Approve for Signoff’

4. Select the ‘Sign off’ tab

5. Select 'Sign off” button

6. Select “Confirm” that documents are being prepared and to Open Hello Sign

7. Click OK

8. Get started at top right

9. Insert

10. Sign then continue

11. I agree

Office of School Finance

NEW: Membership Conflict Petition Process

The window to submit a membership conflict petition is now open. This memo details the process. Friday, March 13, is the deadline for a school corporation or charter school to file a petition. Contact IDOE’s Office of School Finance with any questions.

NEW: Future Enrollments and Membership Conflicts

IDOE is aware that Membership Conflicts are being created where the student is currently enrolled and attending at School A but School B has received information from a parent that the student will be enrolled at a future date at School B.  If School B enters the student in the SIS AND sends the  data to DEX, a Membership Conflict will be created.  In order for the student to be certified for the February 2, 2026 Membership count the future enrollment must be removed from the ODS. Work with SIS vendor to determine how to prevent the future enrollment data from sending to DEX.

REMINDER: Office Hours for 2025-2026

Office hours sessions are currently being scheduled with specific topics and open forum sessions. Please refer to the Calendar on the Upcoming Events page in Knowledge Hub. Office Hours sessions are offered on Tuesday and Thursday on certain weeks to accommodate Business Owner sessions on specific data sets.

Dates Currently Scheduled

Tuesday, 2/17/2026 1:00 - 2:30 pm ET - open forum

Tuesday, 2/24/2026 10:30 - 12:00 pm ET - open forum

Tuesday, 3/3/2026 1:00 - 2:30 pm ET - open forum

Tuesday, 3/10/2026 10:30 - 12:00 pm ET - focus on Special Education Evaluation and Special Education Termination - presentation by Brandon Myers

Tuesday, 3/17/2026 1:00 - 2:30 pm ET - open forum

Tuesday, 3/24/2026 10:30 - 12:00 pm - open forum

Tuesday, 3/31/2026 1:00 - 2:30 pm - open forum

REMINDER: Indiana Commission for Higher Education

2026-2027 Course Eligibility Memo

The following guidance on eligible courses for the 2026-2027 school year has been developed to support implementation of the new high school diploma. This guidance provides updates from the course eligibility memo released in April 2025, including additional clarification on course eligibility for the Enrollment Honors Seal. Contact IDOE’s Engagement Team or the Indiana Commission for Higher Education’s (the Commission’s) CTE team with any questions

REMINDER: Office of School Finance

REMINDER: Count Day Reminder

Please see this memo regarding fall and spring count days for the 2026-2027 school year. As a reminder, students who are enrolled and expected to be in attendance are eligible to be counted on count day and thus count for ADM. School corporations and charter schools are expected to plan to conduct school on count days, so that there is a reasonable expectation that the students will be in attendance. Questions can be directed to schoolfinance@doe.in.gov.

Don’t Forget to Check Knowledge Hub

RECENTLY UPDATED: Change Log - find the Change Log in the School Support Hub to find guidance documentation that has been updated.

RECENTLY UPDATED: DEX Reporting in Development - find the DEX Reporting in Development log in the Communications Hub. This log is provided to inform schools of items that are currently under consideration, approved for development, in development, or deployed to DEX.

UPDATED: Known & Resolved Issues - find the Known & Resolved Issues log in the Communications Hub of Knowledge Hub. This log provides the status of Known Issues related to DEX reporting.

Office of Curriculum and Instruction

NEW: Auto-Enrollment Office Hours Recording

On Thursday, January 29, IDOE hosted a live office hours for counselors and administrators serving students in grades six through eight. The webinar recording can be found here. The session included a brief overview of the latest guidance, followed by Q&A. Questions answered during the session can be viewed in the parking lot, which is available in the office hours slides. Contact IDOE’s Office of Curriculum and Instruction with any questions.

REMINDER: Office of Student Pathways and Opportunities

The submission window for Alternative Education New Program Proposals for operation in the 2026-2027 school year that do not have a currently approved alternative education program is now open through March 31, 2026. The proposal link can be found here, under Documents and Resources. Currently approved alternative education programs that wish to establish a new alternative education program should consult with the IDOE’s Alternative Education Team for guidance. Contact IDOE’s Alternative Education Team with any questions. 

Indiana Accommodation Update

IDOE has added an additional accommodation for the I AM assessment identifier = Alternate Tester with both short and long description = Alternate Tester. You should be able to locate this in your vendor environment.

This ‘accommodation’ is only required when a student who is identified as an alternate test taker DOES NOT have or require any of the additional assessment accommodations for I AM. If IDOE finds any other I AM accommodations the student will be flagged as an alternate tester. This ‘accommodation’ cannot be managed by each LEAs CTC within the assessment vendor’s software. This ‘accommodation’ will be managed by IDOE and add a flag or indicator to the student for an alternate tester identification when IDOE provides those student/enrollment files to Cambium. This ‘accommodation’ is not needed if other I AM assessment accommodations are provided directly from the school or from PowerSchool Special Programs.

Ed-ID Reminder: Updates to STN and SPN

Recently there has been a number of instances where STN/SPN merges have been necessary in order to cleanup newly created IDs when all that was necessary was an update to the existing ID. Guidance for requesting an update to an existing ID can be found in Knowledge Hub > Ed-ID Support Hub > How to Submit and Update Request. Please note that if an update is required to an SPN that has an LVIS account, the staff member must first log into the LVIS application and request an update. Once that update is completed in LVIS, it will be copied over to Ed-ID. You may also use this jotform link to request assistance from Educator Licensing. IDOE Licensing Self Help WebFormPreview