This is where the rubber meets the road in K-12 education. Despite class-size reduction, increased per pupil spending, and pretended accountability with the likes of the “high stakes” but low level competency tests to graduate, too many students are graduating our high schools and going to college needing to take remedial classes in English and mathematics. Do you think gas pedaling the hapless 5-year-olds will help the situation?

28% of Millennium scholars have to take remediation. The good news is it’s down from 31% last year. Let’s put the “scholar” back into Millennium scholars and raise the standards to receive the $10,000 to a level where 0% will require remediation. You can read more in the Las Vegas Review-Journal article: Remedial demand outstrips supply.

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