Depending on who is asked, the city's Department of Education may or may not be planning big changes for gifted-and-talented programs in schools citywide.

We have a strong commitment to the gifted-and-talented programs.

Waiting lists shrink later when families learn if their children were accepted to private schools or gifted-and-talented programs.

While there is no gifted-and-talented program, students who are in need of special help can begin classes three weeks before the school year starts.

The contest for turf in special-needs classes, gifted-and-talented programs and elite high schools.

A gifted-and-talented program is available to pupils beginning in grade 3.

The district also has a gifted-and-talented program for grades 3 to 6; 175 pupils meet one day a week in one of the elementary schools.

Bellmore has one of the few full-time gifted-and-talented programs for youngsters grade 4 to 6.

Each elementary school has a full-time teacher to work with children in a gifted-and-talented program.

The district also has a grade 4-to-6 gifted-and-talented program, and two computers in every classroom.