NAACP: School Entrance Exams Violate Civil Rights Act

[JeannieD]

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which is filing the complaint, said the highly competitive, 2-1/2-hour, multiple-choice Specialized High School Admissions Test was at fault for the disparity.

The NAACP said in its complaint that the test had never been shown to predict reliably a student's academic potential, and breached the Civil Rights Act by having an "unjustified, racially disparate impact."

It said that other elite, academically successful schools in New York City that use broader criteria such as a student's grade-point average, attendance, teacher recommendations, interviews and writing samples had far higher enrollments of black and Latino students.

"To use a standard test that has no demonstrative relationship to past academic achievements or future academic potential seems wrong,"

NAACP to file complaint over entry test for elite New York high schools | Reuters

 

[RetiredGySgt]

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which is filing the complaint, said the highly competitive, 2-1/2-hour, multiple-choice Specialized High School Admissions Test was at fault for the disparity.

The NAACP said in its complaint that the test had never been shown to predict reliably a student's academic potential, and breached the Civil Rights Act by having an "unjustified, racially disparate impact."

It said that other elite, academically successful schools in New York City that use broader criteria such as a student's grade-point average, attendance, teacher recommendations, interviews and writing samples had far higher enrollments of black and Latino students.

"To use a standard test that has no demonstrative relationship to past academic achievements or future academic potential seems wrong,"

NAACP to file complaint over entry test for elite New York high schools | Reuters

In New York? The liberals will win.

 

[IanC]

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which is filing the complaint, said the highly competitive, 2-1/2-hour, multiple-choice Specialized High School Admissions Test was at fault for the disparity.

The NAACP said in its complaint that the test had never been shown to predict reliably a student's academic potential, and breached the Civil Rights Act by having an "unjustified, racially disparate impact."

It said that other elite, academically successful schools in New York City that use broader criteria such as a student's grade-point average, attendance, teacher recommendations, interviews and writing samples had far higher enrollments of black and Latino students.

"To use a standard test that has no demonstrative relationship to past academic achievements or future academic potential seems wrong,"

NAACP to file complaint over entry test for elite New York high schools | Reuters

you have to give NY some props for standing its ground all this time on objective testing rather than just taking the easy way out and putting in a quota (official or otherwise) for minorities. most liberals just cave to PC pressure.

"...attendance,...." should be a prime factor in choosing gifted students! hahahahahaha