re: Blacks and Hispanics who failed teacher certification test in NY awarded $1.8B

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Court rulings found the exam violated civil-rights laws, allowing far more white candidates to pass.

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He couldn’t recite examples of why the test was biased.

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Real life ladies and gentlemen

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Herman Grim did NOT file this lawsuit. This was a class action. Grim was not a named plaintiff. He probably did not know anything about the lawsuit until last week.

He took the test 30 years ago.

Who is going to remember a question from a test they took 30 years ago?

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$1.8B

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Instead of spending this kind of money to help minorities thrive and meet the standard, Democrats reward them for failing.

I feel like I've seen this before.

It was a good run America

All good things must come to an end

RIP

another example why this country is so arse backwards

genealogy site said i’m .0004 black

wtf is my raparations

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Well, maybe the question should not have failed to evaluate whether a test taker would be a competent teacher.

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That's a pretty high standard you're holding these tests to. What if the test was from a historically disenfranchised group and can't do testing as well as other examinations?

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Failing the New York State teachers’ exam really paid off — especially for a Queens man who learned this month he’s getting a $2 million windfall over it.

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What a country

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NY,CA

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Will never go broke .

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MN

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Could go broke

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Court rulings found the exam violated civil-rights laws, allowing far more white candidates to pass.

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I guess this is just because more whites passed without any other consideration.

Going back to 1994 did any of these victims try to take exam again?

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But Grim recalled hiring private tutors and studying for it during the early 1990s, before failing many times.

“I can’t tell you how many times I took them. A lot! A lot!” he said.

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First failed in mid 90s. Failing over and over again should be celebrated, and nice to learn he passed the newer test last year and is teaching his special ed to special ed students.

Since 2015-

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he predominately made a living as a substitute teacher until passing the current certification test last year and going to work as a special education teacher for the city in Harlem.

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They are getting pension checks as well for work never done.

Some whites failed as well. In around 11 years around 10% of the whites failed based on one article. Do they get all this back pay? Did any retake and pass?

51% to 62% of the blacks passed during same time period. They really screwed up being successful…

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The teachers’ case involves the Liberal Arts and Sciences Test, a state-mandated exam that city educators and job applicants were required to take from 1993 to 2004.

More than 90 percent of white test-takers passed the 80-question multiple-choice quiz — one version of which asked teachers to ­explain the meaning of a painting by pop artist Andy Warhol.

But black applicants scored passing grades only between 51 and 62 percent of the time, and Latinos had an even lower passing rate, just 47 to 55 percent.

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If 51% to 62% of the blacks who took the test passed the ones that failed did so for reasons not involving a racist test.

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“The standards are the standards,” he said. “It shouldn’t be based on what would be easy for blacks or whites. To hire people who are not qualified and change the requirements because a certain group didn‘t pass the test is bulls–t.”

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This

I know several whites who have failed the PRAXIS test (for teacher certification in LA and many other states now) multiple times. Should we just give them a career’s worth of salary and benefits because they can’t pass the test?