Denver now offers its gifted-and-talented program at three schools - Baker, Place and Smiley - so students get special instruction near home. But Barbara Neyrinck, head of gifted-and-talented programs for Denver Public Schools, said the programs need to be consolidated to make them stronger, more of a priority and more appealing School administrators proposed creating an expanded special education program for high school students Wednesday in response to the rising costs of out-of-district placements. The goal is to keep special education students in the district, Superintendent Randy Bell said. The program, proposed during the School Board’s business meeting, would target high school students and involve both Hudson and Litchfield. The biggest area of the special education budget is out-of-district costs, said Leslie Derbyshire, special services director. In addition to tuition costs,

The School Board''s new policy reflects the spirit and intention of the state''s original law allowing provisional custody in the first place, highschoolteachers an issue involving the legal status of children highschoolteachers whose parents are divorced. highschoolteachers Board member Catherine Davis, chairwoman of the board''s Policy Committee, said parents or custodians with provisional custody agreements that are not court-ordered by the beginning of the next school year will have to take their children highschoolteachers out of the school they are attending. For the last several years, homeschooling has been the fastest growing educational alternative in the country. Estimates of its growth rate typically range from 15-25% annually. Homeschoolers are notoriously difficult to count, however, the National Homeschooling Research Institute believes that currently 1.2 million children homeschool today. While this constitutes only about 2% of all school age children, it’s more than 20% of those outside the government educational system. And, with a 20% annual growth rate, another quarter million children will join the homeschooling movement this year.

stand at the computer screen and write everything down." Students also can check out books with just their student identification number. The general public will be able to check out and reserve books with a bar code card, which can be obtained through the library''s Web page The new system also stays close to the vision the district has in sharing resources with other libraries, such as Bismarck Public Library, University of Mary and the Mandan public schools. The entities arel working highschoolteachers out some bugs, but it won''t be long before the system will offer the same sharing resources as before.With more students getting even busier these days, the A group of 100 Toronto parents, concerned about the deteriorating quality of their children''s education, is launching an ad campaign to pressure the provincial government to put more money into schools. The parents - lawyers, broadcasters, academics, who represent

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