The state's top court ruled the lawsuit failed to show systemic discrimination in NYC's Gifted and Talented programs in schools. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office
Good news: The state’s top court just tossed out a lawsuit falsely claiming the city’s Gifted & Talented programs are biased against black and Latino students.
Bad news: Zohran Mamdani aims to kill them anyway, having endorsed the plan from the later de Blasio years to phase them out starting with Kindergarten programs.
Indeed, it was a Blas-era lefty outfit, IntegrateNYC, that filed the suit alleging that the screening and tests for admission into G&T favor white and Asian students.
Kudos to the Court of Appeals for ruling that the enrollment numbers don’t show racial, ethnic or gender bias, but the resentment

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