Let’s see, in today’s local section of the Uptown paper of record we have 113 column inches on fountains, local Buddhists, and awards for the paper compared to 3.5 inches on CMS’ No Child Left Behind performance falling by 70 percent since last year.

Last year 61 of 158 CMS schools made “adequate” progress as measured by the feducrats, this year the number dropped to 36 schools.

I’m starting to think CMS does not just have a massive PR department — it must have pictures of editors on the loose in Tijuana.

Update: Here’s a slightly longer take, expanding on the notion that there is nothing CMS can do about the slide.