Graduation Dropout Review and Comment Application Release – April 1, 2008 (GAD Memo #1)

STATE OF MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION LANSING MICHAEL P. FLANAGAN JENNIFER M. GRANHOLM SUPERINTENDENT OF GOVERNOR PUBLIC INSTRUCTION MEMORANDUM DATE: March 10, 2008 TO: Local and Intermediate School District Superintendents Public School Academy Administrators Secondary School Principals FROM: Sally Vaughn, Ph.D., Deputy Superintendent/Chief Academic Officer, Michigan Department of Education (MDE) Margaret M. Ropp, Ph.D., Director, Center for Educational Performance and Information (CEPI) SUBJECT: Graduation/Dropout Review and Comment Application Release – April 1, 2008 (GAD Memo #1) The purpose of this letter is to inform you that the Graduation/Dropout Review and Comment Application (GAD) is scheduled to be released in early April 2008 to give districts and schools/facilities the opportunity to review their 2007 cohort of students and make requests for minimal changes. Districts will have four weeks after the application opens to do the following: 1. Review data they submitted previously via the Single Record Student Database (SRSD), 2. Assemble required documentation for adjustment requests, and 3. Complete requests for adjustments via the GAD application. When the four-week review period has ended, the application will be closed to districts, and the application will be opened for an additional four weeks in May for review and approval of adjustment requests. At the end of the approval ...