Settlements Continue In NYC Teacher Licensing Test Bias Case
July 14, 2022
The Wall Street Journal
Thousands of Black and Latino former teachers in New York City stand to collect more than $1 billion after the city recently stopped fighting a decades long discrimination lawsuit that found a licensing test was biased, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Due to the test’s bias, many would-be teachers were made to find alternative career paths, becoming career substitutes, leaving New York to teach elsewhere or abandoning the profession altogether, Stroock Partner Joshua Sohn, who serves as lead attorney for the teacher plaintiffs, tells the Journal.
“It’s a generation of teachers whose lives were disrupted, whose careers were derailed,” he says.
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July 14, 2022
The Wall Street Journal
Thousands of Black and Latino former teachers in New York City stand to collect more than $1 billion after the city recently stopped fighting a decades long discrimination lawsuit that found a licensing test was biased, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Due to the test’s bias, many would-be teachers were made to find alternative career paths, becoming career substitutes, leaving New York to teach elsewhere or abandoning the profession altogether, Stroock Partner Joshua Sohn, who serves as lead attorney for the teacher plaintiffs, tells the Journal.
“It’s a generation of teachers whose lives were disrupted, whose careers were derailed,” he says.
Click here to read more. (Subscription Required).
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