{"id":272090,"date":"2025-10-02T14:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/272090\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T14:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:38:12","slug":"zohran-mamdani-plans-to-phase-out-gifted-and-talented-program-in-nyc-elementary-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/272090\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani plans to phase out Gifted and Talented program in NYC elementary schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic socialist and mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani wants to undo the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/01\/14\/lifestyle\/i-was-in-gifted-classes-as-a-child-i-believe-it-was-a-cia-program\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gifted and Talented program<\/a> for young New York City school kids \u2014 the latest move to revert to ex-Mayor Bill de Blasio\u2019s era.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor, told the New York Times\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/10\/02\/nyregion\/mamdani-schools-gifted-and-talented-program.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">that he would eliminate the program at the kindergarten<\/a>\u00a0level in a move that is likely to anger parents, who have been passionately divided on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/10\/nyc-parents-scramble-for-kindergarten-gifted-talented-entry\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gifted classes <\/a>would remain active through the school year, but would no longer be available next fall, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>If elected, Mamdani said, he would phase out certain gifted programs in NYC schools. James Keivom<\/p>\n<p>Children going to school in NYC. Robert Miller<\/p>\n<p>Eric Adams has already dropped out of the NYC mayoral race. Matthew McDermott<\/p>\n<p>The proposal by the mayoral hopeful would be the first step in phasing out the gifted program across all elementary schools \u2014 a controversial change inside the Department of Education <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/10\/08\/parents-rip-de-blasio-for-plan-to-end-gifted-and-talented-program\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">made by de Blasio on his way out the door in 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will return to the previous policy,\u201d Mamdani told the outlet in a statement. \u201cUltimately, my administration would aim to make sure that every child receives a high-quality early education that nurtures their curiosity and learning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Eric Adams reversed course on that plan once he took office in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democratic socialist and mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani wants to undo the Gifted and Talented program for young New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":272091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5341,3060,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-272090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","17":"tag-schools","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-us-news","24":"tag-usa","25":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115305087296756043","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}