A fight over gifted education in New York is escalating a national debate over segregated schools.
Political and community leaders, including the city teachers union, have called on Mayor Bill DeBlasio, who is running for the Democratic nomination for president, to keep gifted and other selective programs intact.
“It’s indefensible,” she said, noting that testing children that young not only favors economically advantaged children who have books in the home and access to high-quality preschools, but tests of young children also have wide margins of error, making them statistically unreliable, she said. She acknowledged that, with some parents “the drive to get a child in a special program is not necessarily entirely noble.”
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