The Department of Education’s gifted and talented programs are safe — for now.

Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza on Tuesday told WNYC’s Brian Lehrer that the system would remain intact for at least the upcoming school year.

“I just want to assure parents that students that are currently in gifted and talented programs this year are not going to have the rug pulled out from under them,” he said Tuesday. “We’re not closing those programs.”

Lehrer later pressed Carranza on a specific timetable for a potential overhaul.

“We are going to look at with a very critical lens what is it that we’re doing for our gifted students,” he said. “But that’s not going to happen tomorrow. And it’s not going to happen next week. It’s not going to end the program this year. That’s just not an enlightened way of going about policy development.”

But Carranza argued the current system is based only on accelerated and augmented coursework.

“I have to tell you, as I have gone around the city, you can’t point to a specific pedagogy or a specific curriculum,” he said of the program. “It’s just faster and more. That can’t be what gifted and talented is in the biggest school system in the nation.”

Program proponents argue that more advanced students require a quickened academic pace to ensure engagement and progress.

Carranza also called for a more uniform approach in educating the city’s advanced students.

“It should also have a specific pedagogy,” he said. “In other words — how do you teach gifted children. It should have a specific curriculum.”

Casting them as unjust instruments of racial separation, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s School Diversity Advisory Board called for the elimination of gifted and talented programs in exchange for broader curricular “enrichment.”

The polarizing DOE boss also said that the current admissions structure — where kids as young as 4 years old take standardized tests — often measures little more than privilege.

“What we’re trying to really be focused on is how do you truly identify gifted children and how do you parse the effects of economic privilege from true giftedness,” he said, calling for a more “inclusive” structure.

While Carranza sought to placate parents with kids currently enrolled in the program, he cautioned that he would tackle the matter squarely in the coming months.

“I’m sure there’s going to be some difficult conversations,” he said. “But there will be a public conversation about what this looks like as we go forward.”