This article is race based but the topic is not. The author is assuming the fluent English speaking teachers are the victims of a multicultural political correctness agenda and that students will be deprived a proper education as the result of loosening up regulations for teachers to gain employment.

Let's be clear immediately, finding an African American person in New York who actually wants to be a teacher but can't pass a basic literacy test would be like finding a unicorn. So this issue is not about the black community. This issue applies to New York City which means it most specifically applies to immigrants who have high levels of technical education and lower English proficiency levels. The only fluent English speakers losing teaching jobs to these individuals are those with low levels of technical proficiency. These individual in New York of of all complexions.

Case in point. This guy is a genius and I would be honored to be a student in his class, but there is no way in hell, he is passing that literacy test.