Although there is no federal statute (like the IDEA) that requires school districts to provide supports to children who may be gifted, Pennsylvania is one of several states that have elected to make gifted programming in public schools mandatory for all qualifying students. Public schools in Pennsylvania are therefore obligated to identify all children who may require gifted support services, appropriately evaluate such students, and if eligible, provide a gifted individuated education program (“GIEP”) to those children. The laws pertaining to gifted students do differ in several significant ways from those protecting disabled students however, particularly with respect to available remedies and fee-shifting provisions.