New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced plans to cancel the “Gifted and Talented” accelerated learning program for schoolchildren, drawing praise from those who called the program discriminatory and condemnation from those who say the proposal would harm hardworking students.
Starting next fall, New York City will stop testing kindergartners for entry into the gifted and talented program, which was the subject of a lawsuit (pdf) that claimed the screening was “racially discriminatory” and fueled racial segregation in the school system.
