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| Table 54. | State legislation on gifted and talented programs and numberand percent of students receiving services in publicelementary and secondary schools, by state: 1989-90 |
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| | Discretionary | |
| State- | state- |Gifted and | Gifted and
| mandated | supported | talented | talented
State |gifted and| gifted and | students | students as
|talented | talented | receiving |a percent of
| programs | programs | services | enrollment 1/
________________|__________|_______________|___________|______________
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
________________|__________|_______________|___________|______________
Alabama ........| X | | 17,827 | 2.5
Alaska..........| X | | 4,577 | 4.2
Arizona ........| | | --- | ---
Arkansas .......| X | | 31,519 | 7.2
California .....| | X | 223,712 | 4.7
| | | |
Colorado .......| | X | --- | ---
Connecticut ....| |3/ X | --- | ---
Delaware .......| | X | 5,025 | 5.1
Florida ........| X | | 61,458 | 3.4
Georgia ........| X | | 49,384 | 4.4
| | | |
Hawaii .........| X | | 8,863 | 5.2
Idaho ..........| | | --- | ---
Illinois .......| X | X |2/ 141,537 | 7.9
Indiana.........| | X |2/ 45,000 | 4.7
Iowa ...........| X | X |2/ 18,970 | 4.0
| | | |
Kansas .........| X | | 13,096 | 3.0
Kentucky .......| X | |2/ 31,825 | 5.0
Louisiana ......| X | |2/ 19,000 | 2.4
Maine ..........| X | X |2/ 15,785 | ---
Maryland .......| | X |2/ 60,000 | 8.6
| | | |
Massachusetts ..| | | --- | ---
Michigan .......| | X |2/ 182,414 | 11.6
Minnesota ......| | X | 39,725 | 5.4
Mississippi ....| X | X | 18,279 | 3.6
Missouri........| | X |2/ 36,200 | 4.5
| | | |
Montana ........| | X | --- | ---
Nebraska .......| | X | 2/ 25,000 | 9.2
Nevada .........| | X | 6,389 | 3.4
New Hampshire ..| | | --- | ---
New Jersey .....| | X | 122,626 | 11.4
| | | |
New Mexico .....| | | --- | ---
New York .......| | X | 2/ 150,000 | 5.8
North Carolina .| X | X | 67,119 | 6.2
North Dakota ...| | | 1,151 | 1.0
Ohio ...........| | X | 65,486 | 3.7
| | | |
Oklahoma .......| X | | 43,297 | 7.5
Oregon .........| X | X | --- | ---
Pennsylvania ...| X | | 80,386 | 4.9
Rhode Island ...| | X | 2/ 5,674 | 4.2
South Carolina .| X | | 46,961 | 7.6
| | | |
South Dakota ...| X | X | 4,825 | 3.8
Tennessee ......| X | | 15,600 | 1.9
Texas ..........| X | | 206,583 | 6.2
Utah ...........| X | X | --- | ---
Vermont ........| | | --- | ---
| | | |
Virginia .......| X | X | 101,579 | 10.3
Washington .....| | X | --- | ---
West Virginia...| X | | 11,989 | 3.7
Wisconsin ......| X | | --- | ---
Wyoming ........| | X | --- | ---
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|
1/Percent based on enrollment figures collected by the National Center
for Education Statistics. ---Data not available. NOTE.--The District of Columbia was not included in the survey. SOURCE: Council of State Directors of Programs for the Gifted, The 1990 State of the States Gifted and Talented Education Report. (This table was prepared May 1992.) |
