If you had actually read the article you would have learned that the new program you're talking about is not a "gifted" program at all. It's a new curriculum for all students.
"instead implement an accelerated instructional model in Fall of 2022 that will serve all approximately 65,000 kindergartners"
"Officials plan to train all 4,000 kindergarten teachers in this accelerated learning instruction"
And indeed, the CNN article is the only actual reporting claiming that NYC was eliminating this program.
You would think that something of this magnitude would have been reported in the hometown paper if it were true...But the NYT reports that NYC actually expanded the program by over 1100 seats...(https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/14/nyregion/nyc-gifted-talen...)