In a letter sent Wednesday to families who requested G&T testing, the DOE issued the following statement:
The Department of Education will maintain its existing sibling gifted and talented policy for the 2013-2014 school year. The Department received a lot of public feedback on the sibling policy and will take more time to analyze the issue, especially after the implementation of the Nagelieri Nonverbal Ability Test this year. We believe it is in the best interests of families to see what changes this new assessment may bring before we make any changes to our placement methodology.
This means the sibling preference policy will stay the same as it was in previous years.
The Department of Education will maintain its existing sibling gifted and talented policy for the 2013-2014 school year. The Department received a lot of public feedback on the sibling policy and will take more time to analyze the issue, especially after the implementation of the Nagelieri Nonverbal Ability Test this year. We believe it is in the best interests of families to see what changes this new assessment may bring before we make any changes to our placement methodology.
This means the sibling preference policy will stay the same as it was in previous years.
- For Citywide programs, siblings scoring at or above the 97th percentile will be placed first, by percentile rank. For district programs, siblings scoring at or above the 90th percentile will be placed first, by percentile rank. After all eligible siblings have been placed, non-sibling applicants will be placed by percentile rank.
- In any case where there are multiple students with the same sibling priority and score, and not enough seats for all of them, offers will be made based upon a random assignment process.