In many high schools grades are a completely useless in evaluating academic achievement and in predicting academic success ... but it’s an essential exercise in futility in a society based on equity instead of equality.
Bingo!
From the article: "...faculty could find no alternative exam that would avoid the biased results that led leaders to scrap the SAT last year."
It is just one of the many intended results of the push for "diversity", which is used as a vehicle for restructuring (weakening) of our culture and civic institutions. Not at all surprising that this was initiated by Janet Napolitano.