}Anticipate changes Fall 2010-federal requirements
}Still based upon all EXIT records submitted from 2009-2010 school year
}Expect important changes regarding graduation rates
◦Track students individually and how many years it takes them to graduate
◦Displayed on  09-10 Report Cards & used in AYP Determinations
}More specific information is to follow
}Due Date: mid to late November
}Submitting = closes EXIT 09-10 submissions
}No changes permitted after data is used
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While this is still pretty preliminary, you should expect to see important changes to this report due to changes that were made at the national level in the federal requirements. KIDS EXIT records are still the source of the graduation and dropout data, however formulas, targets, and the report itself will be probably undergo several changes. One change to prepare to see however is a shift to tracking individual students. So you can anticipate more of a cohort treatment to this report.

The cohort will be formed by tracking the students themselves and how many years it will take an individual student to graduate.  Previously, the calculation was based only on # of dropouts and # of grads for each year and didn’t follow individual students as members of a specific cohort. The new 4-year adjusted cohort graduation rate will be calculated and displayed on the building report cards and used in AYP/QPA determinations in the 2010-2011 year.

Stay tuned for more specifics to be released over the next few months and plan that this important report will likely be due in mid to late November and just as we shared with you in the certification classes: No changes are permitted after this data has been signed off and is pulled for use in AYP determinations. Remember submitting this report prevents any new EXIT records for the specific time period being reviewed from being submitted by your KIDS staff.

Just in the past few months, an entire district missed important program participation in one of their sub-groups on this very report and caught it almost a full year too late to correct it and several buildings in their district may not be making AYP this year over a data mistake that could have been addressed by careful review of the data submitted on this report.