Cooking the Numbers to Promote Diversity

Wow. This is one of the easiest take-downs that the Union Leader editorial writer will ever have. I like Spike's reader comment. Here's an excerpt from the editorial:

Wait a minute, said the mayor. If the statewide high school dropout rate is now down to something like 1 [sic] percent (as Gov. Lynch claims), where does the group get a 22 percent dropout rate for whites, let alone the one claimed for Hispanics?

The group had no answer, but it forged ahead, adding to its charges that the city school system rigs its hiring practices and that is why only seven percent of the faculty are minority while nearly 40 percent of the students are [sic].