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City's Suspension Of In-Person Job Tests Will Remain in Effect

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 5/22/20

The de Blasio administration's decision not to hold in-person tests while its focus remains on limiting the spread of the coronavirus is a realistic response, one leading merit-system advocate said, but can't take root as a permanent policy once the crisis has passed.

"My assumption is they will go back to giving competitive exams in a classroom at some point," Organization of Staff Analysts Chairman Robert J. Croghan said in a May 20 phone interview.

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