Attendance details
On the PowerSchool admin side, it is possible to pull up a list of students for any given attendance code on any given date, thanks to the custom report bundle. Here's how to do it:
1. Go to System Reports -> Custom Reports -> Attendance tab -> Student Attendance List
2. Enter the date you want to check for in both the "start date" and "end date" boxes (I used 1/25/2013 for my test)
3. From the "Codes to View" dropdown, select "All absent codes"
4. Check both boxes for "show daily" and "show meeting" (not sure which one we need, may vary by school)
5. Submit
This will yield output along the lines of:
As you can see, the output contains whatever details were entered by the person who made the attendance entry. This can be exported as PDF, spreadsheet, etc.