Law school graduates, professors, and state legislators urged New York bar exam authorities to consider veering away from the state’s planned October online test.
About a dozen speakers at a virtual hearing on Tuesday called on the New York Court of Appeals and the state’s Board of Law Examiners to reconsider plans in light of repeated technical issues other states have encountered, and the disproportionate, real-life impacts they say the test is having on poorer graduates and those of color.
The hearing was sponsored by N.Y. state Sen. Brad Hoylman and Assemblywoman Jo Anne Simon. The Democrats have co-sponsored bills ...
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