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Board approves new gifted education policy; district to create gifted IEPs and advisory committee
Summary
The board adopted policy IHBB (Gifted Education) at third reading, directing staff to develop a district gifted plan and a gifted Individualized Education Plan (IEP) process, and to form an advisory committee.
Las Cruces Public Schools’ Board adopted a new gifted-education policy, IHBB, at third reading on Jan. 21, voting 5-0 to finalize the district’s approach to identifying and serving gifted and highly capable students.
The board approved the policy after discussion on wording and scope. Members agreed to expand the policy’s purpose language to explicitly include both “gifted and highly capable students” and to add the phrase “programs and services” to clarify that supports go…
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