Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums General Discussion Acceleration request to public school board

I�m new to this forum and I am looking for some advice please. Has anyone heard of utilizing the (IDEA) �Individuals with disabilities education act� to get a public school board/system to test a child for 1st grade acceleration? We are not having any success with the public school principal being receptive to our request to have our daughter tested so that she can go move up to 1st grade instead of staying in Kindergarten (she�s 5 1/2). A friend mentioned that �gifted� children fall under this act too but I�m unable to find any documentation online�.has anyone done this? Some background: we live in CA and our daughter already completed Kindergarten in a Montessori setting and is now in a public school where she is NOT being challenged at her level. Thank you in advance for your feedback.