Show editor widgets only on pages that use a specific template?

Solution used:

// decide to show or hide the widgets
function check_for_using_template(selected){
    if (selected == "page-templates/core-front-page.php"){
        jQuery("#page-core-home-1").show();
        jQuery("#page-core-home-2").show();
        jQuery("#page-core-home-3").show();
        jQuery("label[for="page-core-home-1-hide"]").show();
        jQuery("label[for="page-core-home-2-hide"]").show();
        jQuery("label[for="page-core-home-3-hide"]").show();
    }else{
        jQuery("#page-core-home-1").hide();
        jQuery("#page-core-home-2").hide();
        jQuery("#page-core-home-3").hide();
        jQuery("label[for="page-core-home-1-hide"]").hide();
        jQuery("label[for="page-core-home-2-hide"]").hide();
        jQuery("label[for="page-core-home-3-hide"]").hide();
    }
}
jQuery(document).ready(function(){
    check_for_using_template(jQuery("#page_template").val());
    jQuery("#page_template").change(function(){
        check_for_using_template(jQuery("#page_template").val());
    })
});

Unfortunately, I was unable to successfully utilized the is_page_template, so I used jQuery. Works, though it may not be the most efficient solution.

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