Success Achieved By Lowering Standings

From FrontPage by Arnold Ahlert;

Two seemingly unrelated stories in the news last week reveal the bankruptcy of the progressive mindset. In Dayton, Ohio, under pressure from the U.S. Department of Justice, the city’s Police Department is changing its passing grades–again–on tests for police recruits. Last Wednesday, in a report to Congress, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan revealed that up to 82 percent of public schools could be labeled “failing” because they don’t meet the requirements established by the No Child Left Behind law (NCLB). Duncan claimed the law needed to be “fixed.” In both cases, the “fix” is lowering standards.