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• FY25 SOES Beginning of Year Student (S) Collection, v1

• Teacher Licensure Course Status Search Tool

• SDC Updates for August 8, 2024

• EMIS ITC Conference Call Notes

FY25 SOES Beginning of Year Student (S) Collection, v1

Please refer to the Release Notes for details regarding this newly posted collection request.

Teacher Licensure Course Status Search Tool

The Teacher Licensure Course Status Search Tool is now live on the Teacher section of the Department’s website. This new search tool replaces the Certification and Licensure Search that was previously found on the EMIS section of the Department’s website. As with the prior search, the new tool is meant to assist districts in two important ways: validating data that appear on the Teacher Licensure Course (TLC) Status Report generated by EMIS and implementing the requirements that PreK-12 educators are assigned to classes they are validly credentialed to teach.

Note that this is the same data and the same licensure rules that were found in the previous tool. The new tool is simply a more user-friendly way for districts to access the information.

For questions about the use or functioning of this new tool, email datamanagement@education.ohio.gov with a subject line of “TLCS Search Tool”.

SDC Updates for August 8, 2024

Data for the 2023-2024 school year are now available for the reports listed below. Please visit the Secure Data Center Status of Reports page to see which reports have data for the 2023-2024 school year.

• Financial Tile
  • District Expenditures
  • School Expenditures

The Secure Data Center (SDC) is the main resource districts should use to review Report Card Data. It is an interactive tool that allows districts to review data well before the data is final and the Report Cards are released. Ohio Revised Code and Ohio Administrative Code require districts to report data to EMIS and to verify and approve all EMIS data. This verification should include all relevant reports, including those in the SDC. Data should be reviewed and verified prior to the close of the different data collections.

EMIS ITC Conference Call Notes

The notes for the August 5, 2024, ITC Conference Call have been posted. You can find a short description of the purpose of the calls along with a link to the notes on the EMIS website.