Now that most California schools no longer report state-required Special Education data through their Student Information Systems (SIS), but instead use other Special Education Databases (ex. SEIS), there are several ways to keep site staff informed about which students may have IEPs or 504 Accommodation Plans.
Many schools continue to use the legacy CALPADS Student Program Enrollments (aka CALPADS Program 144) because it has been part of their processes for years, and because it is easy to locate lists of students in these programs.
Once the programs have been entered in the students’ PowerSchool Compliance > Program Eligibility screen, locating a list of students with open programs becomes easy.
From the PowerSchool home page, select People > Students > CALPADS Student Program Enrollments – CA. You should have a screen that then looks like this:
Then click on the “Display” text next to (144) Special Education
If you just wanted to know the current number of students, view the count at the bottom of the screen.
You can highlight the page and copy/paste the student names, local student numbers, grade levels, and IEP Start Dates into Excel or Google Sheets very easily from here.
If you have other actions that you wish to perform on this group of students such as exporting their names and demographic information, Quick Export is a good place to start. But first, select Make these students the current selection at the bottom of the screen!
Once you make the list of students your current selection, PowerSchool navigates to a Group Functions screen where you can choose to List or Quick Export Students, print reports or mailing labels, mass enroll into a class (or classes), review the Student Schedule Report or even check for Immunization Compliance. (Among other functions)