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New ADVISER Validation Errors Starting 9/26/2025 (Part 1 of 2)
Public Districts
Several new ADVISER Validation errors and warnings will be activated in the 2025-2026 school year on Friday, 9/26/2025. The error numbers and descriptions are listed here.
Error 818: Excused Absence For Disciplinary Action Reasons Reported For Student Without a Suspension or Expulsion
An absence record was reported for a student with an Attendance Event Category code of 06 “Excused Absence – Disciplinary action, not receiving instruction”, but the student does not have any discipline incidents reported that include a Discipline code of either 03 “Out Of School Suspension”, 04 “Expulsion”, or 05 “Expulsion With Services”. Please verify if the reported absence data is correct, or report the related discipline incident to ADVISER.
Warning 819: Special Education Student With Exit Reason SPED11 “Transferred to Another School District (Moved Known to Be Continuing)” Without a Following Special Education Program Record
Warning – a student was reported by your district with a Special Education Program that included the SPED11 “Transferred to Another School District (Moved Known to Be Continuing)” exit reason, however no following Special Education Program record has been reported by a Nebraska public school district. Please verify this is the correct SPED exit reason for your student.
Warning 820: A Student Reported in ADVISER Does Not Have a Matching Record in ADVISER Person ID
A student currently enrolled in your district does not have an ADVISER Person ID record submitted by your district for this school year. It is recommended that districts upload a file to Person ID each year that includes all students enrolled in the district, as this helps the Person ID system ensure accurate matching, as well as providing data for direct certification in the child nutrition system.
Error 821: Student With Concurrent Enrollments Exited From One Enrollment But Not…Read More › – New ADVISER Validation Errors Starting 9/26/2025 (Part 1 of 2)
Contact Information: NDE Service Desk (NDE.ServiceDesk@Nebraska.gov)
New Validation Errors for ADVISER Starting 9/26/2025 (Part 2 of 2)
Public Districts
Several new ADVISER Validation errors and warnings will be activated in the 2025-2026 school year on Friday, 9/26/2025. The error numbers and descriptions are listed here.
Error 822: Residency Status Code “10” Reported for a Resident Student
A student enrollment record was reported with a Residency Status code of 10 “Part-Time Students Enrolled Outside of Resident District for Extracurricular Activities”, but the District of Residence reported for the student is your own district. Either correct the District of Residence in the enrollment record or the Residency Status code. A nonpublic or exempt school student that attends your district part-time who also resides in your district can be reported with a Residency Status code of 00 “Not Applicable”.
Error 823: Residency Status Code “10” Reported for a Full Time FTE Student
A student enrollment record was reported with a Residency Status code of 10 “Part-Time Students Enrolled Outside of Resident District for Extracurricular Activities”, but the FTE reported for the student is 100%. Either correct the FTE amount in the enrollment record or correct the Residency Status code.
Contact Information: NDE Service Desk (NDE.ServiceDesk@Nebraska.gov)
2025-2026 Noncertificated Staff Collection Now Open in New Portal
Public, ESU, Special Purpose
The Noncertificated Staff application is now open for the 2025-2026 school year in the New NDE Portal for all Public Districts, ESUs, and Special Purpose schools. Please submit the total FTE of your noncertificated staff (those who are not collected in the Staff Reporting application) by 10/15/2025 in order to meet federal data reporting requirements. You may review the instructions for this application here or from the navigation menu within the application itself.
- The following New Portal Roles automatically have access to the new application: District Admin-Public, District Admin-ESU, District Admin-Special Purpose, Business Manager-Public, Business Manager-ESU and Noncertificated Staff-District
- To request access, once logged in to the New Portal, go to Profile>Requests and request one of the roles listed above. New Portal FAQ: How to Request Access
Contact Information: NDE Service Desk (NDE.ServiceDesk@Nebraska.gov)
Local Substitute Additional Days – 2025-2026
The Nebraska Department of Education (NDE) is aware of the continued shortage of substitute teachers in school systems this school year.
The Commissioner may authorize additional days for local substitute teaching permit holders upon request by a Nebraska school system that demonstrates a need for additional days, beyond the 90 full-time days per school year currently allowed. To authorize the additional days, the Department must receive a request from a Nebraska school system that demonstrates need.
To facilitate school system requests, the Department has created an online form. You or your school system staff can access that form here: Local Substitute Teaching Permit – Request for Additional Days Form. The form does allow for a single request that would cover all local substitute permit holders, which would eliminate the need for submission of multiple forms.
Once a request has been submitted, it will be reviewed, and the school system will be notified of the authorization. Please direct any questions about the process to the accreditation team by emailing nde.accreditation@nebraska.gov.
Contact Information: NDE Accreditation - nde.accreditation@nebraska.gov
ADVISER 24-25 Follow Up and 25-26 Fall Workdays – Save the Date!
Save the Date! Upcoming ADVISER Workdays for 24-25 Follow Up and 25-26 Fall collections.
Public Districts and Special Purpose Schools
The NDE and SIS Vendor support teams encourage all Data Stewards and SPED staff who review and approve ADVISER data to attend at least one workday every data reporting period. NDE, SRS and SIS Vendor Support will be available to assist you with any questions and troubleshooting of your data.
To date, the schedule and attending support staff include:
Friday, Sept 12 – New Data Steward / ADVISER 24-25 Follow Up – NDE, SRS, PowerSchool (NebPS), JMC, Edupoint
Tuesday, Sept 23 – ADVISER 24-25 Follow Up and 25-26 Fall – NDE, SRS, PowerSchool (ESU 10), JMC
Thursday, Oct 9 – ADVISER 25-26 Fall – NDE, SRS, PowerSchool (NebPS), JMC, Edupoint
Wednesday, Oct 15 – ADVISER 25-26 Fall – NDE, SRS, PowerSchool (NebPS), JMC, Edupoint (PM)
All workdays will be from 9am-3pm CST.
Who Should Attend: Data Stewards, District Administrators/Superintendents, SPED staff responsible for District ADVISER SPED data and any other staff members who review and approve ADVISER data.
Additional information, including a zoom link for each workday, can be found here: https://help.education.ne.gov/knowledge-base/workdays/
Contact Information: NDE Service Desk (NDE.ServiceDesk@Nebraska.gov)
ADVISER Data Elements Guidance for 2025-2026 plus Special Guidance Released for LB306
Public Districts, Special Purpose Schools, ESUs
The ADVISER Resources webpage has been updated with ADVISER Data Elements v10.0 guidance for the 2025-2026 school year. Please refer to Appendix A to see the list of changes for this year.
In addition, special guidance has also been released with details about LB306, which was recently passed, and is effective for the 2025-2026 school year – Guidance for Reporting Part-Time Students Enrolled Outside of Resident District for Extracurricular Activities. The new Residency Status Code: 10, mentioned here, is a late addition to 2025-2026 ADVISER. The NDE is beginning to work with SIS vendors to include the code before the end of the Fall data collection window.
Contact Information: NDE Service Desk (NDE.ServiceDesk@Nebraska.gov)
Coming Soon – SPEDFRS 2024-25 Data Collection in Legacy Portal
NDE is happy to announce that it has made some improvements to the data collection process and verifications within the Special Education Financial Reporting System (SPEDFRS) collection in legacy portal. A new User Manual will be available very soon with significant changes to contracted service provider data collection and supplementary staff. The data collection window will open September 1, 2025 and close October 31, 2025.
NDE staff will be available via zoom weekly beginning September 9th from 10:00 to 11:00 Central to answer any questions or resolve technical issues. You can add to your calendar via this link. The zoom meeting link is: https://educationne.zoom.us/j/97616055753
Questions? Contact the NDE team at nde.bgmhelp@nebraska.gov
Contact Information: B&GM Helpdesk (NDE.bgmhelp@Nebraska.gov or 888-285-0556)
Introducing the New Portal
Contact Information: NDE Service Desk (NDE.ServiceDesk@Nebraska.gov)
Conditional, Alternative and Temporary Request Summer/Fall 2025
Contact Information: Educator Certification (nde.tcertweb@nebraska.gov or 402-471-0739)
2024-2025 ADVISER Calendar And Data Elements Documents Now Available
The ADVISER Resources website has been updated with the 2024-2025 school year data collection calendar, as well as the new ADVISER Data Elements 2024-2025 v9.0 document. Please especially take note of the changes to this Fall’s Follow Up Collection in the 2024-2025 calendar, and also please utilize Appendix A in the Data Elements document to see what has changed year over year.
Reminder – virtual year end ADVISER workdays are ongoing. Details here: https://help.www.education.ne.gov/knowledge-base/workdays/
Contact Information: NDE Service Desk (NDE.ServiceDesk@Nebraska.gov)