Data Management

The ESS Data Managment team strives to keep all public education agencies informed of upcoming deadlines, changes to data reporting, and updates to ESS applications or integrity rules.  To recieve Data Management Alerts in your inbox, please subscribe:

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DATA MANAGEMENT ALERT: FY27 SOA Opening Alert

  • Wed, Apr 1 2026  •
    • Updates
    • Data Management

The FY27 Statement of Assurances application is open for submission. All public education agencies (PEAs) must submit the IDEA Statement of Assurances (SOA) through the Exceptional Student Services (ESS) Portal within ADEConnect. This is required before any FY27 activities in the ESS Portal are allowable. The portal will block any PEA that has not completed the SOA effective July 1, 2026, which is when FY27 begins. 

DATA MANAGEMENT ALERT: FY27 Statement of Assurances, required for all Public Education Agencies, opens April 1, 2026

  • Fri, Mar 6 2026  •
    • Updates
    • Data Management

DATA MANAGEMENT ALERT: FY27 Statement of Assurances, required for all Public Education Agencies, opens April 1, 2026

DATA MANAGEMENT ALERT: Special Education Data Updates Webinar: Wednesday, March 18, 2026

  • Fri, Feb 27 2026  •
    • Updates
    • Data Management

Based on the feedback we received from PEAs, the Question-and-Answer session held in November 2025 was a great success, and many of you shared how helpful it was to have the opportunity to ask your most pressing questions. In response, our Data Management team has decided to hold these sessions twice a year—each March and October.

DATA MANAGEMENT ALERT: New SPED Integrity Troubleshooting Reference Tool Now Available

  • Thu, Feb 26 2026  •
    • Updates
    • Data Management

The ESS Data Management team is pleased to announce the release of a new reference tool designed to support your work in resolving SPED-related integrity errors generated from student data submitted to AzEDS.

DATA MANAGEMENT ALERT: Special Education Data Updates Webinar for February

  • Thu, Feb 5 2026  •
    • Updates
    • Data Management

The Exceptional Student Services Data Management team will host the next live Special Education Data Updates webinar on Wednesday, February 18, 2026, from 2:00 to 3:00 pm.

DATA MANAGEMENT ALERT: Special Education Data Updates Webinar: Wednesday, January 21, 2026

  • Mon, Jan 5 2026  •
    • Updates
    • Data Management

The Exceptional Student Services Data Management team will host the next live Special Education Data Updates webinar on Wednesday, January 21, 2026, from 2:00 to 3:00 pm.

DATA MANAGEMENT ALERT: ESS October 1 Data Collection—Phase III: Non-Reconciliation Webinar

  • Mon, Dec 22 2025  •
    • Updates
    • Data Management

The Exceptional Student Services Data Management team is happy to announce an upcoming October 1 Data Collection—Phase III: Non-Reconciliation training. Phase III is only for the PEAs that could not match the number of SPED students submitted in Phase I with the number of SPED students in AzEDS during Phase II.

DATA MANAGEMENT ALERT: SPED73 and SPED07 Report Update

  • Fri, Dec 12 2025  •
    • Updates
    • Data Management

The SPED07 report for Phase II of the October 1 Data Collection process has been finalized. 

DATA MANAGEMENT ALERT: SPED73 and SPED07 Report Update

  • Wed, Dec 10 2025  •
    • Updates
    • Data Management

Due to an issue with the Data Mart processing, the SPED73 and SPED07 reports were last updated on December 8, 2025. These reports should be updated later today, and we will send a follow-up alert to advise when they are available based on last night’s integrity run.

DATA MANAGEMENT ALERT: Updated Discipline Data Guidance Document Now Available

  • Fri, Dec 5 2025  •
    • Updates
    • Data Management

Updated Discipline Data Guidance Document Now Available