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The move to expand the program comes as mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani calls to eliminate the offering for kindergartners.
In April, Mayor Eric Adams announced that he was adding another 100 spots to the 2,400 seats in the kindergarten gifted and talented program, and creating a third-grade option for an initial 1,000 students.
"This is a big, long-sought win for parents, families, and students across our city, especially in underserved districts,” Mayor Adams said. "We're giving every child in every zip code the chance that's been denied too often."
Students currently enrolled can complete the program.
Education officials say more 4-year-olds from low income communities were offered seats to the controversial, accelerated programs.
Instead of a standardized test, an educator will administer a questionnaire to children whose parents have expressed interest.
With the failure to renew the Pearson contract, it was not immediately clear what the city will do to hold the G&T test in April.
"We'll go forward. But we will not be providing that test in the future," de Blasio said.
Just 1 percent of NYC’s public school students—about 16,000 of 1.1 million—are currently enrolled in gifted classrooms.
After initially downgrading the test percentiles for about 2,700 students, it appears another 305 students got higher scores than they'd been told to begin with.