By Antonio D. French
Filed Tuesday, November 22 at 8:53 PM
Future of Gifted Education, Magnet Schools in Doubt
By Peter Downs
November 22, 2005 –– Last Friday, David Welch, director of gifted education programs for the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, gave representatives from metropolitan area school districts the news they had been fearing. Starting next year, there will be no more state funding for gifted education or English as a second language instruction.
Currently, state funding for gifted education and English as a second language is added on to the funding school districts get from the state foundation formula, and it is specifically marked for those uses. After this year it stops. Under the new school funding system recently signed into law by Gov. Blunt, school districts will get state funding only from...
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