Thank you for visiting St. Johns Gifted. Please read our About page to understand the purpose of the site. If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!First Coast news just ran a story about the potential for the district to end out-of-zone busing. The link below […]

We just discovered that Switzerland Point Middle School has a long-time blog, located on the district’s server: Raider Rap
It appears to be updated weekly and has the same content you would find in a school newsletter. Just an interesting resource if your child will be moving up to SPMS next year and you want to […]

There has been considerable e-mail traffic since last week’s post about gifted funding in Florida. The point of the article and report referenced was regarding the lack of tracking regarding gifted funding. Neither the article, the report, nor our post made any assertions regarding funding for gifted programs being allocated elsewhere. The key point was […]

Taking a tour of the various web pages for gifted services in St. Johns County, and I’m struck by how several have improved. Here’s a quick review:
Cunningham Creek’s PACE website is really looking great! There are links to the teacher’s pages as well as the forms parents need to get their children into CCE’s full-time […]

Brandee Eburn with the Cunningham Creek PACE PASS sent this article about the lack of transparency in gifted expenditures by school districts.
The editorial reports that auditors found widespread issues with school districts accounting for the funds received from the state for each gifted student. The state provides an additional $2,298 per gifted student, in addition […]