[GOPJ]

It did not “weed out minorities,” it weeded out those who lacked to requite skills to teach what they were being hired to teach.

The solution isn't to drop the test - the solution is to test MORE minorities.

Test 200 black 'teachers' and you'll get an average of 81 people passing the test. Test 100 white 'teachers' and you'll get 64 passing. Bingo - MORE black teachers qualified to be hired. It's simple - just do the math. Surely Karen Matthews is smart enough to ask about this, right?

(46 percent of Hispanic test takers and 41 percent of black test takers passed it on the first try, compared with 64 percent of white candidates.+

[KC_for_Freedom]

You make a good point but the problem is that the makeup of the test applicants are already too “white”. There are not enough minority candidates and the schools want to have more minority role models for their minority students — a good goal, it education does not suffer in the plan.

They have this in Calif too, and teachers are given multiple times to pass the exam. (Not all on the same day). Anyway, I had to take the test and had no problem, even though my major in college was engineering and I had little formal training in English except for high school and one class in English poetry in college.

I say keep the test and get rid of teachers who cannot pass after three tries. Oh, and get them tutors after two failures.