The Mayor, First Lady, & Chancellor at a school (photo: Ed Reed/Mayor's Office) Last week, Mayor de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Carranza announced that they will administer the controversial and ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New York City is expanding its Gifted and Talented program to every school district starting next school year, along with changes to which students will be eligible and how the ...

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 ...

The Department of Education ended the suspense around the city’s accelerated Gifted and Talented program Tuesday night, announcing that the single-test entry system will end after this year. Parents ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (WCBS) — A big change is coming for New York City’s Gifted and Talented programs for students. Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza said Wednesday the city will start ...

Casually, I mentioned to my husband that we received a letter from our son’s elementary school about gifted testing, knowing his reaction would be anything but casual. After all, this was the man ...

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 ...

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 ...