Class is back in session for the city's 1.1 million public schools.

Some students reported to a brand new building on Staten Island that will host both pre-K and 3-K classrooms.

However, there is also controversy brewing over the city's gifted and talented programs, which a mayoral panel has discussed eliminating to increase diversity in schools.

On Thursday, the mayor and the schools chancellor discussed those programs, as well as the test that 4-year-olds take to get in.

"We're taking it very seriously," said Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza. "I want to thank the school diversity advisory committee for their hard work for over two years. Their work was not in vain. But again, we owe them the respect to really take a deep dive in what they've recommended and then have a public conversation about what's the path forward."

"And I think the advisory group did really important work asking these tough questions and raising the sense of how do could we think about this going forward. So I think that test is going to be one of the things we're gonna critically assess, whether it does make sense the way it's structured," said Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Both Carranza and the mayor will be taking this year to look at the issue, and it may be a while before they make a final response to that panel recommendation.