The Voting Rights Act of 1965 banned the use of literacy tests for voting, because the tests were being used as a tool of racial disenfranchisement. But New York is going a lot further than that — it’s abolishing its literacy test for…teachers.

Yes, the state is getting rid of the literacy test it has been using to test teachers since 2013 because too many black and Hispanic teacher candidates were failing it. The New York Daily News gives this decision as sympathetic a headline as I think possible: “Test meant to screen N.Y. teachers instead weeded out minorities.”