The Nation - News from May 15, 1986
Texas’ largest teacher group said it will file a federal court lawsuit alleging racial discrimination in the skills test taken by more than 200,000 Texas public schoolteachers last March. Education Commissioner W.N. Kirby responded that the test was painstakingly designed to avoid discrimination against any minority group. The results showed 96.7% of the 202,084 educators who took the basic reading and writings skills test passed it. A racial breakdown showed only 1.1% of whites failed the test, compared to 18.4% of blacks and 6% of Latinos.
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