"So we continue to send kids unprepared out into the real world. “Their strategy for closing the achievement gap is to attack achievement and lower the average in order to close the gap instead of helping students that struggling students starting in elementary school, and help raise them,” Liu said. Lucas Liu, co-founder of Parent Leaders for Accelerated Curriculum and Education, an advocacy group pushing for the expansion of G&T, argues that eliminating the test would be inherently racist, particularly for parents of Black and Hispanic students who seek to expose their children to more rigorous instruction. “To knowingly continue this unjust policy this year is the equivalent of allowing ‘just one more voter-suppressed election,’ or ‘just one more season where girls' sports receive less funding’ or ‘just one more year when a student with disabilities is denied access to legally mandated services,’" the group said in a statement. Those students who are placed in a G&T program will be able to finish out their G&T schooling throughout their elementary school years, according to the DOE. If the panel approves the contract, the test will then be scheduled for April, giving parents time to prepare their children for the logic and math test. But we will not be providing that test in the future," de Blasio said.ĭe Blasio has previously said the demands of the pandemic kept him making a final decision on the test, delaying the process for students to begin selecting G&T programs or schools across the city.Ī vote to extend the multi-million dollar contract to Pearson Education, which administers the test, will now go before the Panel for Educational Policy-the group that approves contracts, in which 8 of the 13 members are a mayoral appointee-on January 27th. "At this point in the year, a lot of families had already prepared, they were counting on the opportunity, we respect that.
#Gifted and talented test registration#
On Wednesday, de Blasio said that with parents already preparing their students for the test - which is usually administered in January following a registration period that begins in November - it was only fair to proceed one final time. The DOE made the announcement on Tuesday night. 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, fulfilling Mayor Bill de Blasio’s longstanding push to eliminate the test he says reinforces systemwide school segregation.
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