The advisory group charged with finding ways to better-integrate the city’s 1,800 public schools is calling for gifted-and-talented programs to be scrapped, earning largely critical reactions from elected officials, the United Federation of Teachers and education advocates.
The report, released Aug. 26, focused on the gifted-and-talented program which serves as a feeder into the city’s most successful middle- and high schools. It proposed instituting a moratorium on new gifted-and-talented classes, ending the use of the test given to 4-year-olds seeking admission into the program and phasing out the program as students age.
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