No Slight-Of-Hand Left Behind.

How do you deal with academically failing schools, and the awkward questions that come with them? Well, if you're the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board, you... cook the books so those schools don't look so bad:

Once students are transferred from their zoned school to a magnet school, their test scores go with them. Under the new accountability system, the magnet school students' scores will remain at their home school.

In other words, they want to move test scores from students at academically achieving magnet schools (my daughter attends one) and parcel them out to lower performing schools. And here's their lame excuse:

Some board members argue that the move evens the playing fields. "What we're asking here tonight is not a disguise or camouflage. This is bringing about a balance and equity," (Superintendent Charlotte) Placide says.

Isn't that called "gaming the system?" What a fine example we're setting for our youth.