St. Louis Firefighter Promotion Test Being Called Unfair

When the city decided to continue to use a problematic test to determine which firefighters would get promoted to captain and battalion chief in 2000, St.Louis Fire Chief Sherman George warned that the results would be biased because minorities consistently performed poorly on the test.
Sept. 6, 2003
When the city decided to continue to use a problematic test to determine which firefighters would get promoted to captain and battalion chief in 2000, St.Louis Fire Chief Sherman George warned that the results would be biased because minorities consistently performed poorly on the test.
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