NYC's de Blasio sent his children to Gifted and Talented school he plans to close
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has unveiled a plan to phase out his city’s Gifted and Talented program at public elementary schools, which often served as a springboard to the elite schools his own kids attended.
The admissions test for 4-year-olds will be scrapped as well. Instead, all incoming third graders will now be evaluated in different subjects to see if they should receive tailored accelerated instruction for up to one or two periods a day.
"We are saying we’re going to train teachers and prepare schools to actually reach you as a child and bring out your gifts and abilities that would have been ignored if you were not accepted into one of those very small, very exclusive, Gifted and Talented programs previously," de Blasio said Friday on WNYC.
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