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EDFacts Safe and Drug-Free Schools 2010-11 (EDFacts SDFS:2010-11) is one of 17 'topics' identified in the EDFacts documentation (in this database, each 'topic' is entered as a separate study); program data is available since 2005 at . EDFacts SDFS:2010-11 (ed.gov/about/inits/ed/edfacts) annually collects cross-sectional data from states about safety and violence in elementary and secondary educations to support oversight and reporting of the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act (Title IV, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act [ESEA]) and the Gun-Free Schools Act (GFSA) at the school, LEA, and SEA levels. EDFacts SDFS:2010-11 data were collected using the EDFacts Submission System (ESS), a centralized portal, and their submission by states is mandatory and required for benefits. Not submitting the required reports by a state constitutes a failure to comply with law and may have consequences for federal funding to the state. Key statistics produced from EDFacts SDFS:2010-11 are from 7 data groups with information on Discipline Incidents, Students Disciplined, Firearm Incidents, GFSA Reporting Status, Persistently Dangerous Status, Students Involved with Firearms, and Truants. For the purposes of this system, data groups are referred to as 'variables', as a result of the structure and format of EDFacts' data.