Proficiency

The recent National Assessment of Educational Progress scores show that schools are failing at their most basic task. Math and reading proficiency is in a pattern of steep decline — down 4 points in reading and…

It’s hard to reconcile that wording with, for example, the extra pay House speakers and Senate presidents ladle out to legislative committee chairs, floor leaders, etc. – extra pay that can be yanked at any time for not toeing that day’s…