Parents who plan to test their kids for Gifted and Talented programs may attend Department of Education information sessions to learn details about the G&T process, from test to placement. Evening sessions - one in each borough - are held in schools with large auditoriums. Parents generally fill up the seats quickly, so plan to go early. The sessions run from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

The first session is tomorrow, Oct. 14, in the Bronx at Roosevelt High School. Next week there are four sessions: In Brooklyn at MS 113 on Oct. 19, on Staten Island on Oct. 20 at New Dorp High School; in Queens on Oct. 21 atLong Island City High School; and in Manhattan on Oct. 22 at Brandeis High School.<!--more-->

Reminder: the deadline to request a ticket to the test is Nov. 6. A Request for Testing form (RFT) is included in the handbook, and you may file it online or at your child's school. You can read the handbook online or pick up a copy at your neighborhood school. Non-public school parents may pick up the testing form and handbook at a Borough Enrollment Office and must file it there. A sample OLSAT test is included.

Handbooks in translations to eight languages will be online soon, according to the DOE. The languages translated by the DOE are Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Haitian Creole, Korean, Russian, Spanish, and Urdu.

Let us know if you plan to go.  If you do,  please share what you learn about the process!