{"id":14191,"date":"2025-10-08T15:21:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T15:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mamdani-proposal-to-eliminate-kindergarten-gifted-program-splits-education-advocates\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T15:21:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T15:21:28","slug":"mamdani-proposal-to-eliminate-kindergarten-gifted-program-splits-education-advocates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mamdani-proposal-to-eliminate-kindergarten-gifted-program-splits-education-advocates\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani proposal to eliminate kindergarten gifted program splits education advocates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani is dividing education advocates with his calls to ax a gifted program in schools.  Gifted programs have little standard regulation, but their defenders argue they are a necessity for children who are ahead of their grade level, while opponents voice equity concerns&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/education\/5543446-mamdani-new-york-schools-gifted-program\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani is dividing education advocates with his calls to ax a gifted program in schools. Gifted programs have little standard regulation, but their defenders argue they are a necessity for children who are ahead of their grade level, while opponents voice equity concerns&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}