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>Teaching authorities in the state of New York have dropped literacy tests for those wanting to become schoolteachers, saying that a “white workforce no longer suits the needs of the school population.”
>Members of the New York state Board of Regents adopted a task force’s recommendation “to eliminate the literacy exam, known as the Academic Literacy Skills Test,” given to prospective teachers, because “an outsized percentage of black and Hispanic candidates were failing the test.”
>46 percent of Hispanic test-takers and 41 percent of black test-takers passed it on the first try, compared with 64 percent of white candidates.
>Some of the nonwhites who failed the test took the NYSTCE to court claiming to be victims of “racial discrimination” in 2015. The federal court found that there was absolutely no evidence of any discrimination, and dismissed the suit.
>Despite this, Leslie Soodak, a professor of education at Pace University, who served on the task force that examined the state’s teacher certification tests, maintained that a test that screens out so many nonwhites was “problematic,” and went on to admit the core of the problem this way:
>“Having a white workforce really doesn’t match our student body anymore,” Soodak said.
>Another liberal, Kate Walsh, who is president of the National Council on Teacher Quality, blamed the nonwhite failure rates on whites, saying that the reason why “blacks and Latinos don’t score as well as whites on the literacy test is because of various factors like poverty and the legacy of racism.”
>Walsh however admitted that there was “not a test in the country that doesn’t have disproportionate performance on the part of blacks and Latinos.”
Thank you liberals for literally dumbing us down.
