Posted on 09/23/2018 10:29:56 AM PDT by dennisw
Taxpayers shelled out $98 million over a discriminatory FDNY screening test just four years ago — but that’s pocket change compared to the $1.7 billion the city may now have to pay out over a biased teaching exam, The Post has learned.
Legal papers quietly filed over the summer reveal that a court-appointed special master has recommended paying a total of $91.6 million in damages to just 219 of the plaintiffs in a long-running class-action suit against the former Board of Education — now the Department of Education — over a racially biased certification exam.
Approximately 4,000 people are eligible for payments, according to court documents — so if the remaining recommendations follow suit, the final bill would be around $1.67 billion.
The potential tab is more than five times larger than the $300 million officials were anticipating in 2015, when The Post obtained budget documents warning of the grave fiscal threat it posed.
SEE ALSO FDNY’s new entry exam asks about everything but firefighting FDNY's new entry exam asks about everything but firefighting And it dwarfs the $98 million the de Blasio administration paid in 2014 to settle a similar case brought by the Vulcan Society of black firefighters, after a court ruling found the written screening test used by the FDNY discriminated against black and Hispanic applicants.
That’s an average of $65,000 for each of the 1,500 would-be firefighters involved in the suit — while the recommended payout to teachers works out to $418,000 per person.
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Lawsuit must be finalized but this means>>>>
You get $418.000 if you failed this teaching test BUT you must be black or Latino to collect.
No payout if you failed and are white. Same if you are Asian
Wow. The taxpayers of NYC must have TONS of money! Good for them!
If you are Asian, they will make you pay $200 for failing the exam...
If you seen college applications and the points process, you will understand...
Biased how?
Against would-be teachers who don’t speak the language they are supposed to be teaching?
Seems like a good kind of “bias” to me.
Unfortunately, the payout isn’t $300 Trillion or so. The LIB NY taxpayer deserves no less.
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.
The failures resulted in full-time teachers getting demoted to substitutes and prevented aspiring educators from getting hired.
Maybe they should have aspired to passing the test?
I am sure they had a study guide and probably even night courses on it, somewhere.
“Wow. The taxpayers of NYC must have TONS of money! Good for them!”
Yes! Don’t you just love watching Liberal RATs getting fleeced by their worthless “leaders?” But they are so stupid they think it’s wonderful that these “aggrieved folks” getting all this “other people’s money!” They make no connection between these payouts and their own wallets!
You ask me what the square root of 16 is? That’s RACIST! I just want to fulfill my dream of becoming a tenured, unionized public school teacher.
Give me 3 million dollars for mah damages!
Let's look at a question from this exam: Which fork must Raymond Throckmorton III use to eat his escargot and mussels hors-d'œuvre while dining at L'Assiette Champenoise in Tinqueux, France?
$418K per person in a disparate impact case where no intentional bias was shown? This is so wrong.
If the exam had question like this:
“Johnny owns 20 slaves and 3 ran away. How many does he have left?”
If not then just made up whining for failing an exam.
Lawyers passed the test and will collect millions while the aggrieved students get next to nothing.
Well pass and hire everyone and then fire the useless ones
My God, you are SO racist! You really expect people to work hard and get ahead by grit, determination and merit? (/s just in case)
Smart enough to bilk billions out of dumb racist white people?
Excellent! The more grief for NY taxpayers the better. Besides they love higher taxes because they endlessly vote for them.
Q. If you have 6 apples and your “neighbor” steals one of them, how many apples do you have?
A. 6...and a dead “neighbor”.
“I am sure they had a study guide and probably even night courses on it, somewhere.”
They probably had crib sheets and still couldn’t pass.
I’m still waiting for my tuna payoff....
It would be interesting to know where all the money is going. How much will end up in the coffers of liberal groups?
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