It just means that businesses, not trusting the academic credentials of “college” applicants, will need to set up their own placement tests. Watch the homeschoolers and Asians blow everyone away on those tests!
...”The system is expected to especially benefit black and Latino students, who are disproportionately assigned to remedial classes, said Long Beach City College President Eloy Oakley.”...
I don't know about that. I really don't know if they would pass judicial review. All I can say is that it was company written tests that started this college stampede in the first place. The Supreme Court ruled that tests administered by Duke Power Company were racially discriminatory, so companies flocked to the college degree as a subsitute.
Businesses are NOT ALLOWED to give or use placement tests that flunk a disproportionate number of minority test takers (have "disparate impact"). The Supreme Court case on this was Griggs V Duke Power (1971)
Prior to this, companies could hire smart people out of high school. Now they have to use a college degree as an (expensive to the applicant) indicator of basic literacy.
We have to get rid of the EEOC and its enabling legislation.