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Contact Tracing has taken a prominent role in the life of many school administrators.

While the information they need to identify students that have been in close contact with a specific student is often contained in PowerSchool.

Being able to access that data quickly and easily in a usable way is a different story. 

Powerschool student program enrollment, the legacy option, not the add-on special ed software, has long been a standing option in PowerSchool. It allows districts the ability to create their own programs based on their specific needs. It’s a step above activities but not quite as involved as section enrollment.

Student programs allow districts the ability to enroll students, assign entry and exit dates, as well as add exit reasons or additional comments while offering flexibility in creating and enrolling students into programs.

Discipline data is one area in which schools strive to keep accurate and up-to-date records. Incidents is just one of the methods available to users.

Attendance. What can we say? It's no longer as simple as marking students tardy and adding them up. For many schools, tracking attendance with the multitudes of attendance codes and conversions becomes a full-time job.

Human error during data entry into any School District’s SIS still today remains one of the most problematic issues for keeping student and staff data clean and accurate. And it’s only getting worse as many districts nationwide have begun to allow parents to register their child online.

Public school districts nationwide – particularly smaller districts – continue to deal with penny-pinching budgets as numbers rise for students transitioning to Virtual Academies, Charter Academies, private schools, and homeschooling options.

One big advantage for smaller school districts is the ability for teachers, principals, and other staff to get to know the students on a very personal level. It leads to better educational opportunities in many ways and brings citizens of small communities together.

The ability to easily identify students that have been in contact with a student based on course enrollment and the date range is now at your fingertips, with the latest release of RealTime Reports.

What a wonderful world teachers, administrators, and counselors would be living in if they could – in a matter of minutes – easily track the local, state, and national test scores of their entire student body.

In a generation captivated with voter polls, sports rankings, and lists for best places to live, Belinda McEachern is certain who is her No. 1 – Level Data.