Washington Post slams Mamdani’s plan to phase out NYC gifted student programs
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The Washington Post Editorial Board hit Zohran Mamdani, New York Mayor’s Mayor’s Mayor, after a gradual proposal to abolish gifted educational programs in the city, to “restore gifted students in the name of equality”.
“Zohran Mamdani (D), the leading candidate to become the next New York Mayor (D), can predict that this week will provoke a fire storm by explaining that the city plans to gradually remove its primary school programs for talented students in the name of equality? Questioned shipment. “Shocking.”
As a response New York Times Survey On Thursday, the Mayor announced his plans to eliminate gifted programs for the children of NYC until the third grade entered the third grade.
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The democratic candidate for Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks to journalists outside the Federal Jacob Javits building in New York on August 7, 2025. (Light Radin/Pacific Press/Getty Images)
Post’s Editorial Reading Title is the title “Recovering gifted students in the name of equality”.
The current program of the city allows students to enter these talented programs that start in kindergarten after being nominated by preschool teachers and meeting other criteria according to their grades.
As stated by Posta, the city’s talented student program has faced criticism on the left, claiming that the program has worsened discrimination in the school system of the city.
Outlet, “Students from high -income families, the advantage of selection, this results in a disproportionate number of white and Asian children. 66 percent of the total registration of the black and Spanish children, only 21 percent of the participants in these programs.”
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Post criticized other school systems that make similar changes in mamdani and talented student programs, “talented children have different learning needs from their peers, just like cognitive disabled children benefit from their unique educational plans,” he appreciated.
“Politicians stand on a dangerous ground when the search for equality is at the expense of children’s opportunities.” (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)
“Parents see talented programs as step stones towards high successful schools on the road. However, the solution is not to eliminate opportunities from children who are currently benefiting from them, to expand the program and to improve how the city defines the children from inadequate populations.”
At the closing, Post warned that politicians stand on a dangerous ground when the search for equality is at the expense of children’s opportunities “.
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This warned the Post’s editorial board about the potential impact of Mamdani on the NYC for the first time.
In June, Post argued that Mamdani’s socialist policies could bring back the city to “bad old days” and discredit the new generation democratic leaders “.
Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist candidate who won the democratic primary of the New York Mayor, speaks at a approval event from the Union DC on July 15, 2025 in New York. (Spencer Plato/Getty Images)
“The New York people should be worried that Gotham will take back to the bad old days of the civilian dysfunction, and almost all of the democrats will discredit the new generation party leaders who are better than this democratic socialist.”
Fox News Digital has reached Mamdani’s comment campaign.
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