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District shifts gifted-program identification, expands AMP and launches Edison magnet site
Summary
District staff told the Salt Lake City School District board on Jan. 21 that it is changing how students are identified for advanced-learning services, shifting testing and moving to domain-specific AMP groupings, while launching a new Edison magnet site and proposing a 5–6 grade split there.
District staff outlined a set of changes to identification and delivery for its elementary advanced-learning programs (AMP) and full‑day magnet offerings during the Jan. 21 Salt Lake City School District board meeting.
Presenters said the district is moving formal CogAT (Cognitive Abilities Test) administration so schools will have results at the start of fourth grade by testing at the end of third grade. Staff described the CogAT as measuring reasoning across three domains — verbal, quantitative and nonverbal (spatial) — and emphasized the test is intended to measure thinking skills rather than academic knowledge.
Under the revised AMP identification model, staff said they have shifted from a single static, grade‑long group to three domain‑based groups (verbal, quantitative, nonverbal) and flexible,…
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