Dumping test won’t improve jobs outlook

WITH REGARD to the swift executive order of our new governor to terminate PARCC testing, I have but one overriding question: Who represented employers in this decision? What about the employers who don’t relocate to New Mexico because they do not believe they can find a qualified, educated work force? What about the potential employees with families who turn down job offers in New Mexico because they are concerned about the unaccountability and quality of the school system, and persistent near-last-place national rankings? And what about the graduates that have to leave New Mexico to find work because good jobs simply do not exist for them due to concerns about the education system?

Simply put, if you were a corporate board evaluating a potential relocation to New Mexico, would this decision encourage you to relocate or discourage you from relocation?

The sad answer to my original question: No one, it seems. JOHN MICHAEL LINEBARGER Albuquerque