Equity paradox: Minority, low income students suffer most from lack of gifted programs in Massachusetts

Karen Blumstein and Michelle Barmazel, co-presidents of the Massachusetts Association for Gifted Education, said cuts to gifted programs have resulted in an "equity chasm."

Taylor Penley is an associate editor with Fox News.

She told Boston's GBH News at the time, "There's a lot of work we have to do in the district to be antiracist and have policies where all of our students have a fair shot at an equitable and excellent education."

Even more recently, in Brookline, Massachusetts, a local high school weighed nixing advanced English courses in the name of equity, citing arguments that students of color were put at a disadvantage. Though the school ultimately decided against it, that same district previously eliminated its advanced social studies courses for ninth-graders, according to The Boston Globe.