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 |
______________________________________________________________________ | | 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 | --- | --- ________________|__________|______________|____________|______________ |
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.) |