Office of Finance & Management

Safe, Drug and Gun Free Schools Web Application

Superintendent Letter

The Departments of Human Services and Education request your district’s submission of 2007-2008 Safe, Drug, & Gun Free Schools data. This data is required to be reported annually for Title IV and for the Gun-Free Schools Act. This data submission will also be utilized by DOE for the identification of “persistently dangerous schools” (for further clarification see Unsafe School Choice Policy). Therefore, it is imperative your school responds promptly and accurately.

An information packet regarding this data submission has been sent to your district’s safe and gun-free contact. In the information packet we have included the following documents:

• Data Submission Instructions
• Helpful Hints to Successful Data Submission
• Glossary of Current Terms & Definitions
• Submission Timelines
• Unsafe School Choice Policy

These documents can also be accessed at:

http://doe.sd.gov/ofm/sdgf/index.asp

Questions will be addressed by both of the above listed agencies. Contact Jennifer Rattling Leaf, DOE, at jennifer.rattlingleaf@state.sd.us or 773-4703 if you have questions or problems in accessing the web site or data form. Contact Shawnie Rechtenbaugh, DHS, at shawnie.rechtenbaugh@state.sd.us or 773-4807 if you have questions regarding data content (how to report data, clarification and/or explanations of data fields and definitions).

Final data submission is required on or before June 15, 2008.

We greatly appreciate your district’s prompt completion of this important data collection.