Maryland education bureaucrats in Annapolis ? aided and abetted by their union masters in the Maryland State Teachers Association (MSTA) ? are now in full cover-up mode. Instead of requiring teachers to focus on imparting essential skills like reading and math, the State Board of Education has gutted the Maryland high school graduation standard.

Students who passed all their classes and have good attendance records who twice fail one or more of the exit exams required for a diploma will now be allowed to substitute a “project.” In other words, more generations of Maryland public school students will be ill-prepared for college or to earn a living after graduating. This shameful flight from academic accountability starts atthe top, and that?s why state School Superintendent Nancy Grasmick has to go.