Good morning. It’s Friday. Mayor Eric Adams plans to reboot the gifted and talented program for the city’s public schools. We’ll also look at a former New York Rangers player whose scrappiness in the courtroom brought back memories of scrappiness on the ice. And the Mets will play their home opener today.
By expanding the gifted and talented program and permanently eliminating admissions tests, Eric Adams hopes to address what city officials have acknowledged for years: The program has contributed to racially segregated classrooms.