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Despite using what state officials call “many best practices,” an audit of the Georgia Department of Education’s gifted program found reduced effectiveness due to deviations in how the program’s funds were used.

Georgia’s program for gifted students has problems with too-large class sizes, teacher training and student selection, a new report from the state auditor’s office finds. In the 2020-2021 school year, about 199,000 Georgia students were designated as gifted, representing about 12% of the 1.7 million statewide student body. The state Department of Education says these […]