Yes, California should junk its woke admissions standards

After six years of dealing with growing numbers of unprepared students in their classrooms, math and science professors at the University of California have had enough. In an open letter addressed to the UC Board of Regents, more than 800 faculty members have detailed the harm caused to their educational mission by lowered admissions standards. They demand that the SAT and ACT mathematics be required of applicants for places in STEM majors beginning with the 2027 admissions.

Democratic Party activists have long targeted standardized testing by defaming it as a tool of racial oppression. In 2019, before COVID-19 existed, the Compton Unified School District sued the University of California, accusing it of using SAT and ACT scores to put black and Latino students at a disadvantage. The UC system first suspended the use of standardized tests in admissions in May 2020 because of COVID-19, but in May 2021, the UC system settled