NYC Mayor de Blasio unveils plan to phase out controversial gifted and talented programs for elementary school students that many educators say discriminate against Black and Hispanic children.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled a plan Friday to phase out the gifted and talented programs for elementary school students that many educators say discriminate against Black and Hispanic children enrolled in the nation’s largest public school system.
, a Democrat from Queens who chairs a panel on New York City schools. “@BilldeBlasio promised intensive public engagement about it but now wants total elimination.” “The elimination of the G&T program is just another example of this administration’s continued assault on high achieving students and accelerated learners," said Yiatin Chu, co-president ofMarcia Benjamin-Charles, 44, a mother of two public school students in Brooklyn, said she fears de Blasio’s move will result in an exodus of bright students to charter schools.
But Sok Svay of Queens, whose 14-year-old daughter is a public school student, said de Blasio’s new plan will level the playing field. She said that while her daughter is thriving despite not being in a gifted and talented program, basing children's future on how they perform on a test taken at age 4 is unfair to the parents who have neither the time nor resources to prep their kids for this examination.
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