The front-running New York mayoral candidate said in an interview with CCN that he would preserve the Gifted and Talented (G&T) program should he become the next mayor. “We need to expand the Gifted and Talented program, [it] was isolated to certain communities. That created segregation in our classroom,” Adams said. Current New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced last week his plans to cancel the G&T accelerated learning program for schoolchildren, drawing criticism from New York State Assemblyman William Colton and New York City Councilmember Robert Holden, both Democrats, who rallied with parents outside the headquarters of the Department of Education on Thursday for the second time to demand that the program be kept. De Blasio’s move, however, was lauded by another group that claimed that the program is racist and excludes Latino and black children, who constitute the majority of the school system, while the students enrolled in the G&T …