A coalition of Department of Education staffers, community groups and students has called for an end to the gifted-and-talented program, calling the idea of giftedness “discriminatory.”
In a letter to Mayor de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Meisha Ross Porter that was first reported April 15 by the Daily News, the advocates argued that because gifted-and-talented programs feed into the city’s screened middle- and high-schools, they “entrench admissions pipelines that have made our school system one of the most segregated in the country.”
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