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GUEST COLUMN: "Tax renewals will not result in needed reform"

Shreveport Times - LA,USA
Guest Column By Grace Anne Harrold
Jan 19, 2006

... not only sad but pathetic when most of these children could walk to a safe and good school that has a great program to assist the gifted and talented students. ... Every neighborhood school deserves a gateway program for gifted students.
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060119/OPINION03/601190310/1007

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Gifted students create downtown walking tour

2TheAdvocate - Baton Rouge,LA
by Erin Hernandez
June 22, 2006

A few dozen seventh graders are giving history lessons to Baton Rouge visitors…Melanie Hanley’s seventh-grade gifted-and-talented students at Glasgow Middle School have been working feverishly all school year on the first walking tour of historic downtown Baton Rouge…If things go as planned, the tour will used to create a brochure that will be available for downtown visitors.
http://www.2theadvocate.com/specialsections/wherewelive/3203716.html

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Teachers receive advanced training

2TheAdvocate - Baton Rouge,LA
By Charles Lussier
July 3, 2006

About 70 Baton Rouge-area teachers gave up their time last week to learn how to prepare their high-school students for college-level Advanced Placement exams. ...
http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/3267246.html

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Supt. Savoy: Finding our children of promise (10/26/06)

Sulphur Southwest Daily News - Sulphur,LA
by MARY ANN DUTTON
October 26, 2006

Choosing to use the term ‘children of promise' rather than ‘at risk,' Savoy is ready to implement a plan to identify the children of promise in Calcasieu Parish schools who may have been overlooked by current methods.
http://www.sulphurdailynews.com/articles/2006/10/26/news/news2.txt

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Gifted classes may return

2TheAdvocate - Baton Rouge,LA
By CHARLES LUSSIER
March 14, 2007

Gifted classes may soon return to public schools in southeast Baton Rouge next fall after a decade’s absence.
http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/6480542.html

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Four schools to get gifted programs

2TheAdvocate - Baton Rouge,LA
By CHARLES LUSSIER
March 21, 2007

The East Baton Rouge Parish school system unanimously agreed Tuesday to add gifted classes this fall at four schools in the southeast part of the parish…
http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/6607462.html

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