The mayor unveiled a plan to add seats in the highly selective program for both kindergartners and third graders and to permanently replace an admissions test with universal screening. By Lola Fadulu ...

In the fifth grade, my family moved and I transferred to a new school district in New Jersey. In the West Orange school district, I gained admission into the High Aptitude Program, a gifted and ...

The father of four gifted children, Brad Rine of Metairie has no doubt that the specialized education they have received in Jefferson Parish public schools is, in fact, "special education." One day ...

Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox. Mayoral frontrunner Zohran ...

Last week’s announcement from Mayor Eric Adams and Schools Chancellor David Banks that the city plans to add 1,100 seats to gifted-and-talented programs in time for the start of the school year in ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — After recent reports that Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani would end the Gifted & Talented program in New York City if elected, Borough President Vito Fossella announced his ...

Applications for New York City’s gifted and talented program open next month — roughly one year after former Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the program would be phased out and replaced. Education ...

Gifted and Talented programs are giving kids the academic nourishment they need to excel. The Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Magnet Center in Dallas has programs that constantly rank as some of the best in ...

The state's top court ruled the lawsuit failed to show systemic discrimination in NYC's Gifted and Talented programs in schools. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office Good news: The state’s top ...

Apolonio "Polo" Trejo has made it his personal calling to help teachers better recognize "invisible characteristics" of gifted young students. Trejo, a bilingual educator and professor at Our Lady of ...

Students of color and those from economically disadvantaged backgrounds remain underrepresented in gifted and talented programs, which offer academic enrichment beyond grade level. In Virginia’s ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New York City is expanding its Gifted and Talented program to every school district citywide by adding more seats for kindergarten students, as well as opening a program for ...