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Possible causes for the Per-Pupil Test Error Flag:
- The number of students in colF (Q4 OSSE payment) doesn't match those in colJ (Q4 school expectations).
- The number of students manually entered into PPF!ColsC-F are not faithful representations of what was provided by OSSE
- The journal entries in the accounting system don't match those on the FRT!PPF tab. This is the most common source of the error.
- OSSE changed the per-pupil rate, weightings, or rounding methodology.
- OSSE overpaid the school
- If you overwrite the references in ColD/E/F or ColH/I/J before those quarterly numbers are released, you may have to go back to the template and refresh those formulas with the originals. (Added 8/25/23)
- ...other reasons
An example of OSSE overpaying a school in January 2022, authored by Dan Theisen
- Hope got paid a whole lot extra in Q1 (they closed a campus at the end of last year but OSSE didn't adjust)
- They were owed negative money in Q2. Rather than clawing back funds (which I doubt they can do), OSSE just paid $0
- OSSE showed the negative payment for Q2 in the Q3 receipt, when they should have reflected $0
- Hope got paid $1.4M instead of the anticipated $0.9M in Q3.