KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. — The Knox County Schools Board of Education is set to discuss policy changes to the Gifted and Talented program on Monday at a regularly scheduled board meeting.
Those changes include deleting sections referring to Gifted and Talented Coaches, positions that were cut during a federal funding freeze this summer. The policy change is also coming with a new name for the program: Advanced Learners.
Previously, Gifted and Talented Coaches pulled groups of qualifying students out for an advanced lesson once a week. For parents like Philip McMullin, he worries for his son, Leonidas, an 8-year-old already doing algebra at Bluegrass Elementary…