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# Generate Status Updates

Generate helps state education agencies improve data quality and simplify EDFacts reporting. It standardizes data, supports reporting, and strengthens data-informed decision-making.

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**Generate is freely available to all SEAs and runs inside each state’s environment.**
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### Why Generate

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#### ⚙️ Automate reporting

Automates IDEA EDFacts and SPP/APR reporting.

#### ⏱️ Submit efficiently

Supports timely, efficient data submission.
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#### 📊 Improve consistency

Improves consistency across states for IDEA data.
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### Current release

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#### Generate v14.0

Released September 2026.

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#### Release resources

Find links to Supplemental Release, HotFix, and Metadata files in GitHub.

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### 📈 EDFacts files submitted through Generate

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**Generate has supported 500 EDFacts file submissions across 44 file specifications.**
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### File specifications submitted

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<summary>View all 44 file specifications</summary>

| File specification | Description                                                                          |
| ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| 002                | Children with Disabilities (IDEA) School-Age                                         |
| 005                | Children with Disabilities (IDEA) Removal to Interim Alternative Educational Setting |
| 006                | Children with Disabilities (IDEA) Suspensions/Expulsions                             |
| 007                | Children with Disabilities (IDEA) Reasons for Unilateral Removal                     |
| 009                | Children with Disabilities (IDEA) Exiting Special Education                          |
| 029                | Directory                                                                            |
| 033                | Free and Reduced Price Lunch                                                         |
| 035                | Federal Programs                                                                     |
| 037                | Title I Part A SWP/TAS Participation                                                 |
| 039                | Grades Offered                                                                       |
| 045                | Immigrant                                                                            |
| 052                | Membership                                                                           |
| 059                | Staff FTE                                                                            |
| 067                | Title III Teachers                                                                   |
| 070                | Special Education Teachers                                                           |
| 086                | Students Involved with Firearms                                                      |
| 088                | Children with Disabilities (IDEA) Disciplinary Removals                              |
| 089                | Children with Disabilities (IDEA) Early Childhood                                    |
| 099                | Special Education Related Services Personnel                                         |
| 112                | Special Education Paraprofessionals                                                  |
| 116                | Title III Students Served                                                            |
| 118                | Homeless Students Enrolled                                                           |
| 129                | CCD School                                                                           |
| 130                | ESEA Status                                                                          |
| 141                | EL Enrolled                                                                          |
| 143                | Children with Disabilities (IDEA) Total Disciplinary Removals                        |
| 144                | Educational Services During Expulsion                                                |
| 163                | Discipline Data                                                                      |
| 170                | LEA Subgrant Status                                                                  |
| 175                | Academic Achievement in Mathematics                                                  |
| 178                | Academic Achievement in Reading/Language Arts                                        |
| 179                | Academic Achievement in Science                                                      |
| 185                | Assessment Participation in Mathematics                                              |
| 188                | Assessment Participation in Reading/Language Arts                                    |
| 189                | Assessment Participation in Science                                                  |
| 190                | Charter School Authorizer Directory                                                  |
| 194                | Young Homeless Children Served (McKinney-Vento)                                      |
| 198                | Charter Contracts                                                                    |
| 203                | Teachers                                                                             |
| 207                | State Appropriations for Charter Schools                                             |
| 211                | Title III English Learner Exited                                                     |
| 222                | Foster Care Enrolled                                                                 |
| 223                | Title I School Status                                                                |
| 226                | Economically Disadvantaged Students                                                  |

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### Submissions by school year

| School year | Files submitted |
| ----------- | --------------: |
| 2025–2026   |              49 |
| 2024–2025   |             125 |
| 2023–2024   |             105 |
| 2022–2023   |              68 |
| 2021–2022   |              46 |
| 2020–2021   |              42 |
| 2019–2020   |              20 |
| 2018–2019   |              23 |
| 2017–2018   |              19 |
| 2016–2017   |               3 |
| **Total**   |         **500** |

### Coming next

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#### November 2026 — Generate v14.1

**Includes file updates for Discipline, Exiting, and Staff.**
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### Explore more of Generate

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[Developer Guides](/generate-documentation/developer-guides/getting-started.md)
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[Release Notes](/generate-documentation/release-notes/introduction.md)
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