Projecting percentage of FCPS students found eligible for AAP for 2013-14?

[Anonymous]

After reading the thread about grading of the FAT, I am pondering whether the AAP advisory committee and central selection committee are trying to reduce the number of kids ultimately found to be eligible for AAP? I am hoping that this is not the case and that the philosophy is still to provide services to every potentially gifted child. (My DC has some extremely high scores and others lower; in previous years should easily have been in but this year possibly not.)

On the side of the overall number approved for level IV services possibly not changing is the fact that the benchmark for the Naglieri remained the same as in the past, 132. If there were truly an effort to decrease the numbers eligible, would the Naglieri benchmark not have been raised? Or has it been kept the same just to help maintain the numbers of nonnative English speakers considered and ultimately admitted? I'm thinking that CogAT/FAT may be different (only top 5% in pool vs. about 10% previously, corresponding with the old 98 percentile of national test-takers) only because of concerns about prepping for CogAT and people having exact copies of the test?

From all I have read about increasing local level IV services, it seems that there is an effort underfoot to accommodate the current AAP population and even serve a greater number of students? Or do people get the impression that the 16.6% figure for percentage of FCPS students eligible for AAP will be reduced? If so, to what percentage and where have you found this info? I'm wondering also if there are state standards that need to be conformed to.

Any inside info or insights welcome! TIA.

[Anonymous]

Great question!