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Many to suffer in wake of levy failure
http://www.kvpress.com/news/articles05/0406levy.htm

By Mike Weland
Kootenai Valley Press - Boundary County, ID, USA
April 6, 2005

... all of the outlying elementary schools, eliminating sports and extra-curricular activities, eliminating programs, such as the gifted and talented program, that ...

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This district's high priority on gifted and talented programs has given students an edge--and helped the system combat shrinking enrollment

By Rebecca Sausner
Independent School District of Boise City, Idaho
Tuesday April 5th

"This district's high priority on gifted and talented programs has given students an edge--and helped the system combat shrinking enrollment..."
http://www.districtadministration.com/page.cfm?p=1057

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Gifted and talented programs

KPVI-TV - Pocatello,ID
By Staff Writer
January 4, 2006

"Instead of using workbooks and taking notes they wore costumes and played with Legos. It's all part of District 25's "Gifted and Talented" program. ..." http://www.kpvi.com/index.cfm?page=nbcheadlines.cfm&ID=30423

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Teen's Mars Project Gets in Talent Search

Houston Chronicle, TX
March 14, 2006

MOSCOW, Idaho — A Moscow High School senior has been named one of 40 finalists in a science talent search after devising a method to determine how dust settles on Mars.

Luke Moller, 17, is the first Idaho student in more than 15 years to reach the finals of the 65th annual Intel Science Talent Search.

... Moller was named a Davidson Fellow by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development earlier this year. ...
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/science/3720692.html

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Teaching the talented and gifted (5/3/07)

Twin Falls Times-News - Twin Falls,ID,USA
By Joshua Palmer
May 3, 2007

Fourth-graders are vying for one of about 25 openings in the community's first magnet school, the first full-time program for talented and gifted students.
http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2007/05/03/news/local_state/111409.txt

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Are Our Schools Fair?

Boise Weekly
BY AMANDA PEACHER
August 8, 2007

"Schools end up rewarding those advantages that kids get from their families," Sacks says. "So instead of a level playing field, schools actually help to create unlevel playing fields by carving out these special gifted-and-talented programs, enriched learning experiences ... the benefits of which primarily go to kids who were born to the right parents."
http://www.boiseweekly.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A270862

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