Bill de Blasio’s Outrageous Final Move

If Bill de Blasio had a plan to cut back trash delivery in New York City to once a month, he’d call it “Operation Sparkling Streets,” and if he had a plan to let every criminal out of jail he’d call it “Operation Public Safety.” Guess what he’s calling his idea to dumb down the one corner of the city-run school system that works fairly well? “Brilliant.”

Today, de Blasio announced he is implementing a phaseout of the test-based gifted-and-talented programs for city-run public schools. De Blasio is notoriously late for everything, but even for him this is an extraordinarily chaotic last-minute scramble. After seven and three-quarters years in office, with exactly twelve weeks left to serve, he is trying to bomb the one successful corner of his school system. According to the New York Times, he developed the plan in secret, with no input from parents, so he’d be able to spring it on an unsuspecting city.

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Kyle Smith

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If Bill de Blasio had a plan to cut back trash delivery in New York City to once a month, he’d call it “Operation Sparkling Streets,” and if he had a plan to let every criminal out of jail he’d call it “Operation Public Safety.” Guess what he’s calling his idea to dumb down the one corner of the city-run school system that works fairly well? “Brilliant.”

Today, de Blasio announced he is implementing a phaseout of the test-based gifted-and-talented programs for city-run public schools. De Blasio is notoriously late for everything, but even for him this is an extraordinarily chaotic last-minute scramble. After seven and three-quarters years in office, with exactly twelve weeks left to serve, he is trying to bomb the one successful corner of his school system. According to the New York Times, he developed the plan in secret, with no input from parents, so he’d be able to spring it on an unsuspecting city.