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Educators and students urge legislature to keep gifted program funding at $15 million
Summary
Advocates, teachers and students told the School Funding Subcommittee the state'funded gifted and talented grant is critical for identifying high'ability K—2 students and providing specialized curriculum, professional development and evaluation. Speakers asked lawmakers to restore and hold funding at $15 million.
Indiana'based advocates, teachers and students told the Senate School Funding Subcommittee on March 17 that state funding for gifted and talented education is essential to identify high'ability learners and to deliver appropriately differentiated instruction.
Julie Klusas Gasper, executive director of the Indiana Association for the Gifted, told the panel Indiana is one of 15 states with a funded gifted program and described the law that requires identification and services in all public and charter schools. "In 02/2007, the Indiana General Assembly passed a bill that required all schools to have gifted programs," she said, and asked the subcommittee to keep the line…
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