Ed-Fi Updates Newsletter
November 3, 2025
In this newsletter:
All Ed-Fi acronym explanations are available in the Ed-Fi acronyms document.
Fall 2025 Ed-Fi Experience Survey Now Open
Please share your experience. One way of tracking progress and gathering feedback is through a brief survey that is given to Local Educational Agencies (LEAs) every six months. We would appreciate if you could take 10 minutes to respond to this survey by Friday, December 5. The survey does not collect names of individuals or districts but does ask for some demographic information. Thank you in advance for your time and feedback.
Complete the Fall 2025 Ed-Fi Experience Survey.
Also, thank you to the 85 participants from school and district staff across the state in our Spring 2025 Ed-Fi Experience Survey. This valuable feedback is helping us meet your needs, plan for the future and monitor growth. Results from the Spring 2025 survey informed the work of creating the modified Fall 2025 survey.
View the Spring 2025 Ed-Fi Experience Survey results.
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MDE/Ed-Fi Team Participates in the Ed-Fi Summit 2025
MDE Staff attended the Ed-Fi Summit recently in San Antonio, Texas. Several of the team members presented a session on the Minnesota Ed-Fi project. This was an exciting time of learning, connecting and planning for the team as we try to continuously improve our ability to support you. Thank you again for your patience while we were out of office.
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Systems and Databases Moving to Cloud
Minnesota IT (MNIT) Services and the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) are undergoing an initiative to move MDE systems and related databases to a secure cloud server. This change could impact district use of MDE systems and databases, and you will not be able to access downloads (PDFs, videos, etc.) beginning Friday, November 14 at 5 p.m. until Monday, November 17 at 8 a.m.
2025-26 School Leaders Listening Sessions
Join us for the first of three Ed-Fi School Leaders Listening Sessions. Share this invitation with your school leaders.
The MDE/Ed-Fi team wants to hear about district, charter school, and Tribally Controlled School needs and collect input from leadership for consideration in shaping the Ed-Fi roadmap as the program moves forward.
Who: Superintendents, other district leaders, charter school leaders, and Tribally Controlled School leaders along with MDE/Ed-Fi team members
When: Tuesday, November 4, 8-8:45 a.m.
All sessions will be held via Microsoft Teams. More information can be found in the Ed-Fi Calendar.
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Register for Introduction to MARSS in Ed-Fi
Introduction to MARSS in Ed-Fi will be available live via Microsoft Teams on the following dates:
• Friday, November 7, 9-10:30 a.m.
• Wednesday, November 19, 9-10:30 a.m.
All session links will be on the MDE calendar.
MARSS AB File/Ed-Fi Comparison Report
In August, a minor adjustment was made to the PreSchool Screening site numbers in the Comparison Report to align data between Ed-Fi and A/B files. However, this change led to the report failing in some cases. To address the issue, we have reversed the change for both the 2025 and 2026 reporting years. This does not affect Ed-Fi only districts or running the edit in MARSS WES with Ed-Fi Data. We apologize for the inconvenience.
MARSS PS Note
Until a district has certified themselves to submit by Ed-Fi only, submitting MARSS PS records by A/B upload is still required to obtain screening state aid. Since the screening is a legislative requirement (Minn. Stat. 142D.091 [2024]) for prekindergarten, early learning scholarships, and public kindergarten programs, all districts should be submitting the MARSS PS data.
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Save the Date: Fall MCCC Trainings
MCCC 25-26 Updates
The MCCC 25-26 Updates will review updates to MCCC data and reporting for the 25-26 school year. There will be two sessions of this training:
For more information about both events, please see the MDE calendar.
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State Code 4151 Error Corrected
State code 4151 U.S. Government-Comprehensive was missing in the 2025-26 Ed-Fi course list causing an error when being related to a local course in the course course association. This missing code has been corrected and should no longer cause an error to occur.
Ed-Fi/MCCC Advisory Team Application Window for 2025-26 SY Now Open
Are you involved in the Ed-Fi MCCC implementation? Would you like to support its success? Apply to be an advisory team member. Learn more about the Ed-Fi/MCCC Advisory Team and fill out the application. The application window is open through Friday, December 5.
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