Prepare: Gather the following information or documents:
Review and revise the District’s Gifted Education Scope & Sequence
Schedule and present revised District’s Gifted Education Scope & Sequence to the Governing Board for review and approval
This cycle includes a Criteria Question. The LEA’s response will generate the appropriate forms being loaded as part of the LEA’s Data Collection.
For Public School Districts with attendance boundaries, Gifted Education is a mandatory requirement for students in grades K-12. The LEA will answer “Yes” to Question 1 indicating they are an LEA with attendance boundaries.
Charter LEAs are not required to adhere to the Gifted Education mandate; however, they may choose to ‘opt-in’ to these requirements for the purposes of becoming eligible to apply for funding through the state Gifted Education grant (when funded).
During the legislative session of 2022 the legislature repealed A.R.S. 15-952 as part of the K-12 Budget Reconciliation Bill that was signed by Governor Doug Ducey. Due to this repeal an LEA will no longer be required to submit an Affirmation of Teacher Evaluations by February 1st to the Educator and School Excellence Unit. The repeal of 15-592 though does not remove the evaluation requirements of the LEA for certificated teachers as required under A.R.S. 15-537.
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