Weekend Scandal

It's not Chicago unless there's a scandal exposed over the weekend. This time up, it's the schools:

• Nearly a third of Chicago public high school teachers say they were pressured to change grades this past school year.

  One in five report they actually raised a grade under such prodding.

  And dozens of teachers -- elementary and high school alike -- say they believe someone changed their grades last year without their approval.

So let's see. School get the maximum allowable raise in property taxes for something like 11 of the last 14 years; certain "elite" basketball programs have the smart kids take SAT tests for their stars; Daley touts the schools as improving every year; first day attendance is the key to all sorts of Federal money so the schools have concerts, give-aways, contests, parades, etc.

And still, this bureaucratic monstrosity is still infected with grade changing scandals? We thought all this progress meant we had moved beyond this petty corruption. Unless it's all a facade? That things aren't improving? That once again, Daley lies are being exposed? That's cool, too.