Front-runner Zohran Mamdani plans, if elected mayor, to end the Gifted & Talented program for kindergarten students at New York City public schools

This would mark a return to the plan put forward by former Mayor de Blasio in 2021 to phase out the program from elementary schools. Mayor Adams reversed de Blasio’s move , expanding the program during his term and making changes to its admissions process.

Mamdani said he would end the program just for kindergarteners.

The candidate first pledged to do so in a questionnaire with The New York Times on Wednesday.

“Zohran knows that 5-year-olds should not be subjected to a singular assessment that unfairly separates them right at the beginning of their public school education,” Dora Pekec, a Mamdani spokesperson, said.

“His agenda f

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