Committee updates on MSIS 2 certification, course-code changes and recent data-sharing agreements

May 16, 2025 — At its meeting in Jackson, the Data Governance Committee reported that MSIS 2 is entering its final month of district certification and discussed scheduling and reporting expectations for the end of the school year and the start of the next school year.

Committee members were told districts will largely stop sending the current school year’s data around mid-June to perform local system rollover and will resume reporting new school-year data around mid-August to allow schedules and early enrollment to stabilize. The committee heard the state will continue to keep MSIS available for reporting and to retrieve MSIS IDs while local systems perform rollovers.

The chair noted that the state and vendors are still developing historical-reporting features such as student profiles that show enrollment, assessment, discipline and attendance histories; these features and improvements are planned through the summer while the system finishes its first full year of certification.

The committee’s course-code work group reported recent updates to the online course-code listing for the 2025–26 school year, including which course codes are new, modified or deactivated. The work group said it is updating grade-span fields so courses that can be taken in grades 7–12 display that range and that AP courses will be reflected with a 9–12 grade span after districts raised flags.

The data-sharing agreement work group reported three executed or extended agreements since the committee’s last meeting in February: ACT and ACT WorkKeys (state testing/work-keys exchanges), a new agreement with the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment to evaluate and validate student assessment and accountability systems, and an extension with the National Student Clearinghouse.

Committee members were invited to contact Office of Technology and Student Support (OTSS) staff with questions about accessing MSIS or for guidance on what MSIS contains.

The items were reported as operational updates; the meeting record shows no additional formal motions relating to these items beyond routine approvals of minutes, agenda and future meeting dates.