A Manhattan federal judge ruled yesterday that a standardized test used by New York City to license teachers from 1996 to 2001 violated black and Latino teachers’ civil rights because white teachers passed at a significantly higher rate.
Southern District Judge Kimba Wood (See Profile) ruled in Gulino v. Board of Education, 1:96-cv-08414, that the city’s Board of Education had failed to show that the Liberal Arts and Sciences Test, or LAST, was significantly correlated with teachers’ performance on the job, and therefore violated Title VII of the Constitution.
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