This is what DEI does in the real world. Democrats don't want you to know this, but the New York Times apparently managed to let this one get printed.

Twitter ^ | March 24, 2025 | Daniel Alman from Squirrel Hill @DanielAlmanPGH

[EinNYC]

As a former NYC public school teacher, this is a total disgrace. But if that’s what the idiot dimmocraps think is fit for your children-—leading them on a downward spiral-—so be it.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

Many, many moons ago, some teachers ‘of color’ who wanted to become vice principals sued because the exam was.....yes.....raaaaaacist! There was “too much mathematics” in the exam.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

---

https://archive.ph/3jLmR

https://observer.com/2017/04/ny-regents-literacy-test-teachers-flunk/

Regents Drop Teacher Literacy Test Seen as Discriminatory

By Kate Taylor

New York Times, March 13, 2017

The Board of Regents on Monday eliminated a requirement that aspiring teachers in New York State pass a literacy test to become certified after the test proved controversial because black and Hispanic candidates passed it at significantly lower rates than white candidates.

The Regents also moved forward with a proposal that would allow some students who failed another test, aimed at evaluating practical skills like lesson planning and assessment, to be certified as teachers based on their grades and professors’ recommendations.

Together, the steps signal how much the Regents’ approach has changed under the current chancellor, Betty A. Rosa, after several years of efforts to raise the bar for entering the profession.

Under the previous chancellor, Merryl H. Tisch, the state created a set of more rigorous licensing exams. Among them was the Academic Literacy Skills Test, or ALST, which was intended to assess reading and analytical writing skills, and the edTPA, which requires candidates to submit a portfolio of work, including unedited videos of them interacting with students.

The literacy test proved challenging to many prospective teachers, but particularly for black and Hispanic candidates. An analysis done in 2014, the year the test was first administered, found that 64 percent of white candidates passed the test on the first try, while only 46 percent of Hispanic candidates and 41 percent of black candidates did.

Nonetheless, a federal judge who had found two older certification tests to be discriminatory ruled in 2015 that the ALST was not biased, because it measured skills that were necessary for teaching.

However, deans of education schools, especially those with large numbers of black and Hispanic students, disagreed, and argued that the exam was exacerbating a shortage of teachers of color. More than 80 percent of public-school teachers in the country are white, according to the federal Education Department, while a majority of public school students are not.

Others said that the exam was redundant, given the other requirements to become a teacher.

Michael Middleton, dean of the Hunter College School of Education, said in an interview on Monday that the battery of exams currently required of teacher candidates — four, in most cases — was onerous and expensive, and that eliminating the ALST was appropriate.

“We already know that our licensure candidates have a bachelor’s degree, which in my mind means they have basic literacy and communication skills,” Dr. Middleton said.

The state Education Department has said it will review another required licensing test, the Educating All Students exam, which measures teachers’ skills at reaching students with disabilities and those learning English, to see if it should be adjusted to also assess literacy skills.

The edTPA has not proved as difficult as the ALST: The overall pass rate is 77 percent, according to the state Education Department. But black candidates pass the test at rates lower than candidates of other races or ethnicities. A task force convened by the Regents, made up of deans and professors of education schools, as well as teachers and district superintendents, recommended recalibrating the passing score on the exam and allowing certain students who fall short of a passing score on the edTPA to become certified based on the recommendations of their teachers. The Regents agreed on Monday to move forward with that proposal.

Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality, said that eliminating the literacy exam because of minority candidates’ performance on it was the wrong response.

“What we are effectively doing is perpetuating a cycle of underperformance,” she said.

“People are showing a tremendous amount of weakness by just backpedaling because they feel like it’s the politically sensible thing to do,” she added.

Even before Monday’s actions, the Regents had backed off the tougher requirements, instituting safety nets that allowed candidates who failed the edTPA to try to pass an older test to qualify, and allowed those who failed the ALST to show through their coursework and grades that they had the skills that the test measures.

[556x45]

Why would this be surprising when the dems are defending the hills of transgender mutilation, abortion, pedophilia and child trafficking?

[quantim]

What’s the latest on NY losing TWO congressional seats to a red state on the next census? Guess it would hinge on how many illegals that are deported, pinging Mr. Tom Holman!

[Enterprise]

An ethical, credible Department of Education would have yanked their accreditation in a heartbeat. But, well, you know why it didn’t happen.

[House Atreides]

Literacy? We don’t need no literacy! I don’t have to show you no stinkin’ literacy!

[lurk]

Fire the standards, not the applicant.

Pretty much what you find when you walk into a public school.

It’s only a matter of time before the school system undergoes a massive reform, or dies of its own doing.

[grobdriver]

Parents of New York - you want to know why little Jimmy or Jane can’t read? Now you know.

[Savage Beast]

The teachers do not have to know how to read and write?

[Sicon]

You don’t need to be literate to indoctrinate children with Marxism.

[metmom]

This has been an issue in Buffalo for DECADES.

Every year the tests are done and the results are published, and nobody gives the breakdown by race, but the teachers and unions scream *RACISM!!!!!* which tells everyone all they need to know how the different demographics did.

[rellic]

Under our system,
all people are guaranteed the same rights.
But you cannot legislate the same intelligence,
or abilities!
As Democrats are won to do.
If blacks can’t handle it then they become ditch diggers!
BTW I’ve met a lot of ditch diggers that made as much as or more than me.

[central_va]

City of New York, Borough of Bronx

High School Math Proficiency Exam

Name:____________________ Gang:_________________

1. Darnel has an AK-47 with a 40-round clip. If he shoots 13 times during each drive-by shooting and misses 6 out of 10 shots, how many drive by shootings can he attempt before he has to reload?
2. Jose has 2 ounces of cocaine, and he sells an 8-ball to Jackson for $320 and 2 grams to Little Mikey for $85 per gram. What is the street value of the balance of cocaine if he does not cut it?
3. Rufus is pimping 3 girls. If the price is $65 for each trick, how many tricks will each girl have to turn so Rufus can pay for his $800 per day crack habit?
4. Dino wants to cut his half-pound of heroin to make a 20% profit. How many ounces of cut will he need?
5. Willis gets $200 for stealing a BMW, $50 for a Chevy and $100 for a 4x4. If he has stolen 2 BMWs and 3 4x4s, how many Chevys will he have to steal to make $800?
6. Raoul is in prison for 6 years for murder. He got $10,000 for performing the hit. If his common law wife is spending $100 per month, how much will be left when he gets out of prison, and how many years will he get for killing the bitch for spending his money?
7. If the average spray can covers 22 square feet and the average letter is 2 square feet, how many letters can a tagger spray with 3 cans of paint?
8. Hector knocked up 6 of the girls in his gang. There are 27 girls in the gang. What percentage of the girls has Hector knocked up?

[Orosius]

Your test is still too hard.

[bdfromlv]

yes, its like approving an epileptic brain surgeon.

[Sequoyah101]

And no matter how much money is thrown at edumacation you still can’t fix stupid or stupid teachers.

My high screwl physics teacher actually had a degree in physics from The Citadel. Amazing. My American and World History teacher actually had a degree, of all things, in History from a significant university. Why they were teachers in high screwl I’ll never understand but they were good and taught me a lot. Physics for engineers in university was a breeze, we used the same text as we did in high screwl.

[GOPJ]

Insane - and we wonder why kids can’t read in 6th grade. Wonder no more...

[fella]

Ignoring the bell curve has consequences.