Additional
Procedures
Transfers Transfer
students will be included with all other students in the ongoing process of
identification. Transfer students may nominated on the same basis as other
students within the district and with the same identification procedures.
Students new to the district who have been in a G/T program in another district
must meet IISD identification criteria to be placed in an IISD gifted and
talented program.
Exit Exit
from the G/T Program (19 TAC 89.51 (a) and (e) Students may withdraw from the
Gifted and Talented Program at any time during the school year. Reasons
for exit may include student personal or social stresses that prevent
self-satisfying student performance. Each situation will be reviewed individually.
Furlough
Status In some extenuating circumstances,
it may be deemed by the Exit Committee to be in the best interests of the
student to remove the student from the G/T Program temporarily for part of a
semester, or a year, without fully exiting the program. This may be for
reasons if illness, family or emotional, peer conflicts or other problems for
which the student feels incapable of continuing in the G/T program at the
present time, but which are reasonably expected to be resolved within a period
of time after which the student wish to continue in the G/T Program.
When
this is agreed to be the case, the Exit Committee may vote to grant a
"furlough" status for a specific period of time. This should be
noted in the student's G/T records and the student should not be withdrawn from
the G/T Program. However, the student's class schedule may be changed if
necessary and the student may be placed in another class and not attend the G/T
class for the period of the furlough.
Appeals
Placement
decisions, which do not recommend G/T placement may be appealed by parents in
the following manner (19 TAC 89.51 (a)
A request for reconsideration is made to the Campus
Screening/Selection Committee.
The Campus Screening/Selection Committee meets to review
the case and examines all pertinent information. The committee will
inform the parents in writing of its decision.
Parents may appeal
the building committee's decision to the District Appeals Committee, which is
made up of the Director of G/T Education, Director of Elementary or Secondary
Instruction and Operations, and the Director of Planning, Evaluation, and
Research.
The District Appeals
Committee will review all relevant information and may gather additional
information if deemed necessary or warranted. The
District Appeals Committee may also hear a statement from the student or
parent(s) or guardian. The District
Committee will inform the parents in writing of its decision.
Request for a review of the decision by the District
Appeals Committee shall be made in writing to the Assistant Superintendent
for Curriculum and Instruction within five days after receipt of the
written notice from the District Appeals Committee.
The Assistant Superintendent for
Curriculum and Instruction shall provide the parent(s) or guardian written
notice of the date, time, and place of the review within five working days of
the appeal request. The review shall be scheduled within 15 working days
after the Superintendent has received the written request. The decision of
the Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction will be Communicated
to the parent(s) in writing. |
