Okla. Stat. tit. 70, § 70-1210.307

gifted status - School year plans for programs, yearly reports.

A. It shall be the duty of each school district to provide

gifted child educational programs and to serve those children, as

defined in Section 1210.301 of this title, who reside in that school

district. This duty may be satisfied by:

1. The district directly providing gifted child educational

programs for such children;

2. The district joining in a cooperative program with another

district or districts to provide gifted child educational programs

for such children;

3. The district joining in a cooperative program with a private

or public institution within such district; or

4. The district transferring identified gifted and talented

children to other school districts which provide the appropriate

gifted child educational programs, provided, no transfer shall be

made without the consent of the board of education of the receiving

school district. The district in which the child resides shall

provide transportation for the transferred student and pay an amount

of tuition equal to the proportion of the operating costs of the

program to the receiving district. Transfers authorized by this

section shall be made under such rules and regulations as the State

Board of Education may prescribe.

B. Each district shall, regardless of the method used for

accomplishing the duty set forth in subsection A of this section,

notify in writing the parents of each child identified as gifted of

the fact that the child has been so identified. The district shall

also provide each such parent a summary of the program to be offered

such child.

C. Beginning with the 1994-95 school year, and each year

thereafter, each board of education shall submit a plan for gifted

child educational programs as defined in Section 1210.301 of this

title to the State Department of Education which shall include:

1. A written policy statement which specifies a process for

selection and assessment of children for placement in gifted and

talented programs that is consistent for grades one through twelve;

2. A description of curriculum for the gifted child educational

program. Such description shall demonstrate that the curriculum is

differentiated from the normal curriculum in pace and/or depth and

that it has scope and sequence;

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3. Criteria for evaluation of the gifted child educational

program;

4. Evidence of participation by the local advisory committee on

education for gifted and talented children in planning, child

identification process and program evaluation;

5. Required competencies and duties of gifted child educational

program staff;

6. Number and percentage of students identified by the district

as gifted children pursuant to subparagraph g of paragraph 2 of

subsection B of Section 18-201 of this title; and

7. A budget for the district gifted child educational programs.

D. The board of education of each school district shall prepare

a report which outlines the expenditures made by the district during

that year for gifted child educational programs pursuant to the

Oklahoma Cost Accounting System, as adopted by the State Board of

Education pursuant to Section 5-135 of this title.

E. The State Department of Education shall, after each school

year, report to the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the

Speaker of the House of Representatives concerning the number of

children identified for the programs, number of children served by

the programs, type of programs provided, type of screening

procedures utilized, cost analysis of the programs and the estimated

number of gifted and talented children unserved by the programs.