NEW YORK – The New York Post is calling out the state’s Board of Regents for opening the door for teachers who can’t read or write.

According to a recent editorial:

At its meeting Monday, the board will vote on eliminating the Academic Literacy Skills Test, which is designed to measure prospective teachers’ reading and writing ability. It’ll also consider lowering standards on another test, called edTAP, which requires teachers to show their skills by videotaping their lessons.

Why drop the bar? To make it easier — especially for minorities — to become teachers. In 2013-14, just 48 percent of blacks and 56 percent of Hispanics passed the literacy test, versus 75 percent of whites. To fix the problem, the geniuses at the board would simply scrap the test.

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The irony, of course, is that by lowering the bar for teacher certification, instead of addressing poor standards in teacher training colleges, the Regents are doing minority students far more harm than good.

Rules spelled out in labor agreements with New York’s teachers unions virtually guarantee that once illiterate educators are put to work and obtain tenure, it will be nearly impossible to get rid of them.

“How self-defeating,” the Post opined. “If minority kids are force to attend lousy schools staffed with teachers who lack skills, it’s cheating the very group – minorities – that such a policy is meant to help.”

In other words, teachers with poor literary skills will be tasked with helping to improve the dismal academic performance in New York City’s public schools. Last year, a mere 38 percent of third- through eighth-graders who took state standardized tests for reading were rated proficient, NYC education data shows.

For eighth-graders alone, the percentage of students who passed their reading test was only 25 percent.

“We’ve now abandoned or watered down the teacher evaluation process, and now we’re lowering the bar for entry certification as well,” Manhattan Institute education expert Charles Sahm told the Post.

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“This is a literacy exam,” he said. “If you’re going to be a teacher … this is a criteria you should be able to meet.”

Locals who commented on Facebook seem to agree.

“As a New Yorker, it boggles the mind how far down the sewer we are allowing our schools to fall and fail our kids,” Robert Maltese posted. “The unions have so much power, the current mayor a lithering commie butter head and the city council just like a politburo.

“Unbelievable the same parents who complain about not having school choice and want vouchers and charter schools for their kids, elected a jackass who is against them,” Maltese wrote.

“Unions have become legalized mafias,” Toni Taylor added.

“They need to fix the schools that are teaching the teachers!” Jim Johnson posted.

“Yup!” James Messina wrote.