Imagine a runner excitedly telling you that he set a new personal best in the 400-meter dash. After congratulating him, you ask what he did to improve his time. Was it better nutrition, an improved training routine or more sleep?

“Nope,” he replies. “I slowed down the stopwatch.”

That would put a damper on his “accomplishment.” While a lower number on the clock is the goal, it’s meaningless if it doesn’t reflect the athlete’s performance.

The public should have a similar skepticism about the Clark County School District’s jump in graduation rate . District officials recently announced that the class of 2025 had a graduation rate of 86.6 percent. That’s more than 5 percentage points higher than the 81.5 percent rate among the class of 2024. Statewide, Nevada’s graduation rate for last ye

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