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Posted on 07/15/2023 5:10:48 PM PDT by Angelino97
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.
Roughly 5,200 black and Hispanic ex-Big Apple teachers and once-aspiring educators are expected to collect more than $1.8 billion in judgments after the city stopped fighting a nearly three-decade federal discrimination lawsuit that found a certification exam was biased.
It’s the largest legal payout in city history.
As of Friday, 225 people who failed the Liberal Arts and Sciences Test used for teacher licensing from 1994 to 2014 had already been notified they’re getting settlements of at least $1 million, according to an analysis of Manhattan federal court records.
Court rulings found the exam violated civil-rights laws, allowing far more white candidates to pass...
Herman Grim, 64, of Queens, on July 5 was awarded the biggest judgment to date — a jaw-dropping $2,055,383.
It includes $1,583,114 in back pay for time never clocked, lost interest accrued, and other compensation...
The judgments are based on what the teachers and teacher candidates would have earned had they passed the test and kept working in the city’s public school system.
Typically, the further back they failed the test, the more money plaintiffs are entitled to...
Grim said he’s in disbelief but the money can’t come fast enough because he’s racked up serious debt on his Queens home and credit cards.
He couldn’t recite examples of why the test was biased.
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.
Grim said he opened a preschool business in the mid-1990s but closed it in 2015.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
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