After promising for more than seven years to overhaul the city’s controversial Gifted and Talented program, Mayor de Blasio announced major reforms Friday intended to address stark racial disparities ...

NEW YORK — The Panel for Educational Policy voted against a proposed contract early Thursday morning that would have allowed the city to test four-year-olds for the gifted and talented program this ...

New York City Mayoral candidate Andrew Yang says families don't know how their "kids are going to flourish?" without the Gifted and Talented programs. Andrew Schwartz/SplashNews.com Mayoral candidate ...

Education Department officials in charge of testing argued against going forward with the Gifted and Talented exam this year, saying doing so during the pandemic would worsen racial inequity in the ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- The "Gifted and Talented" program in New York City is coming to an end. The Department of Education is phasing out the controversial exam that fast tracks some gifted elementary ...

Mayoral frontrunner Eric Adams said Wednesday that he supports a Gifted and Talented program admissions exam — leading some critics to question the impact and timing of Mayor de Blasio’s 11th-hour ...

Today, my 4-year-old daughter will be put to the test. Along with thousands of other pre-kindergarten children in schools all over the city, she’ll take the Bracken School Readiness Assessment and ...

Following months of delay, the city Department of Education is prepared to administer the high-stakes Gifted & Talented exam to 4-year-olds -- but the test will no longer be given after this year, ...

The Education Department will administer an entrance exam for its gifted and talented programs to four-year-olds this spring -- but it will be the last time. The city’s gifted and talented programs ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The New York City Department of Education (DOE) will administer its Gifted & Talented exam for the last time this spring, city officials announced. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced ...