My advice would be to talk with an attorney who focuses on education and schools. These are usually special education attorneys who focus mostly on kids with di

My advice would be to talk with an attorney who focuses on education and schools. These are usually special education attorneys who focus mostly on kids with disabilities but they also help gifted kids as well. They are worth every penny. And they are the key to unlocking individualized public education. There are ways to get an IEP for a gifted student as well, if they can qualify as twice exceptional. https://www.nagc.org/resources-publications/resources-parents/twice-exceptional-students https://www.nagc.org/resources-publications/resources-parent... An apt quote: "Because gifted children demonstrate greater maturity in some domains over others, they may be at greater risk for specific kinds of social-emotional difficulties if their needs are not met." https://www.nagc.org/resources-publications/resources-parents/social-emotional-issues https://www.nagc.org/resources-publications/resources-parent... With the destruction of GATE programs and the return to local funding I imagine that there will be many lawsuits from parents like yourself asking the school districts to actually provide free appropriate public education (FAPE) for gifted kids. This may take the form of a class action Federal lawsuit. Eventually, Congress will have to act but this is going to take 5-10 years. In the meantime you should think about private school, supplementing your child's education and see about the "twice exceptional" thing and talk to a special education attorney.