""He's thrown red meat to the Cuomo and Sliwa campaigns over the entire question of meritocracy,""
""It seems to be one of his rare strategic blunders where he was, on at least education, playing a 'Rose Garden' strategy,""
""And now, he's opened with a particularly controversial proposal.""
Zohran Mamdani pledged to end admissions to the Gifted and Talented program for kindergarteners, reigniting controversy over separate accelerated learning tracks in New York City public schools. Opponents quickly seized on the pledge, prompting Andrew Cuomo to announce a plan to expand gifted programs across the five boroughs and Curtis Sliwa to pledge doubling the number of programs to over 200. For this fall, schools made about 2,500 offers to current kindergarteners from close to 10,100 applicants, with another 1,100 seats reserved for third-grade entrants. Critics described the pledge as a strategic blunder that raised questions about meritocracy.
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