"I am not saying the numbers you provide are inaccurate, but they reflect the data of a special interest group who is trying to raise money." - That's a fair cr

"I am not saying the numbers you provide are inaccurate, but they reflect the data of a special interest group who is trying to raise money." - That's a fair criticism; however, like any other data, trying to find "true" data is quite difficult. For example, if I look at the florida number (which I found via) that also includes money for low SES and ESL students. I don't see what percentage unfortunately. I think it's fair to say not all 267 M is spent in what is traditionally considered gifted education in that case. That being said... a billion dollars? Extrapolating for a moment and looking at the states you picked they're approximately 1/3 of the population of the united states. That would suggest around 3 billion dollars being spent nationally... We have approximately 50 million k-12 students in the US. With around 5 to 10% of that population being gifted that would give us 600 to 1200 per gifted pupil in additional spending. Average spending per pupil (non-gifted) is around 9k or so. My point is we trivially fund gifted education in this country. "it is not a give and take from one group to the other". I know ... and that's why I pointed out that people can belong to both groups (gifted dyslexics for example). "that is one of the issues that vouchers are intended to balance". Intent is great. That doesn't mean it produces said results, does it?