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Orange Unified outlines GATE screening, magnet and cluster options and plans for assessment changes
Summary
District staff presented the GATE program: universal third-grade screening with multiple measures, magnet and cluster instructional models, roughly 3,000 identified students (about 14% of grades 2–12), and consideration of moving assessment instruments to reduce testing time for third graders.
Orange Unified presented a detailed overview of its Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) program on June 18, describing screening, placement, instructional models and outreach.
Executive Director Lisa Green said the district currently identifies just over 3,000 GATE students in grades 2–12 — roughly 14 percent of that population — and highlighted the district’s multiple-measure qualification process and universal third-grade screening. The district operates five elementary GATE magnet…
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