Have you seen this yet?

On the first page of the website of the The California Association for the Gifted is an analysis of the 2005-06 California State Budget for education. What remains to be seen is whether the 3.5% increase makes it down to Gilroy, and when.

GIRC committee

The GIRC (GATE Identification Review Committee) has finished it's work, and has a draft proposal which is being polished up for presentation to the Board of Education at the February 3rd board meeting.

The draft proposal represents a significant change in how the district identifies gifted students, and takes into account the problems experienced in recent years. The new identification process is the cornerstone of reforming the GATE program. It will address many of the concerns of parents and educators, and will serve as the foundation of further reforms.

Parents interested hearing firsthand about the new identification process are urged to attend the February 3rd board meeting.

Welcome

Welcome to the Gilroy OpenGATE blog.

A "Blog" is a Web Log. It allows you to write and publish information to the web, and comment on other people's posts. A blog is an eay way to share your thoughts and ideas with others.
This blog is intended for comments by the members of the Gilroy G.A.T.E. community: Parents, students, educators, administrators of the Gifted And Talented Education program.

OpenGATE is a parents' group dedicated to establishing alternate funding for G.A.T.E. programs in Gilroy Unified School District, and using that funding to create a positive change in the district. For more information see our main webpage or our Yahoo! Groups page.

This blog is set up to allow anonymous posts, in order to give people who might be afraid to voice their opinion a chance to speak openly. I reserve the right to remove comments or posts I deem to be offensive, but I'm only going to enforce some basic rules of civility: no profanity, and no personal attacks. If you disagree with a policy of the district, find a way to express that without resorting to namecalling.