Maybe the heat baked their common sense away?

The State Board of Education made it easier Tuesday for schools to be labeled "excelling" and harder to be dubbed "underperforming."

A new, more lenient formula to rank Arizona schools will save the state money and save dozens of schools from the embarrassment of being labeled "underperforming" a second year in a row.

How easy is it now to make the "excelling" mark?

It also will push about 164 schools into the highest ranking, "excelling."

Only three schools made the "excelling" list last year, the first time Arizona labeled schools.

Again, why did they change the standard ?

Labeling fewer schools "underperforming" will save the state money.

Why go through the testing process at all?

I link you decide.