<p>PA state law allows for a gifted iep, but obviously since this is not a federal mandate, decisions made at a state level cannot be appealed to a federal court as can other special education disputes.</p>
<p>Also (I think) parents cannot request private school funding as least restrictive environment, unless the student also has a disability that cannot be addressed in the public school system.</p>
<p>I also do not know if a gifted iep follows a disabled student into a private special education school if the school is being funded by the district., even if the private school placement is also in PA. </p>
<p>As a practical matter, private schools in our area do not like to see students with dual exceptionalities so most students with dual exceptionalities will go through the public school system with both types of iep’s, or parents will remove a student to homeschool if the going gets rough. (Public school teachers’ unions are not big fans of inclusion, whether or not the student is gifted.)</p>