The hype is already beginning in school districts across the state about how students did so much better this year on the state's testing program.

The improved performance shouldn't be much of a surprise considering how for the first time elementary and middle schools were allowed to count passing scores on retests. That fact got only a brief mention in some school district press releases.

(To be fair, you could get the info from Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools if you dug past the press release to click on the attachments.)