Map Reveals States With Best and Worst Public Schools
A map shows the states with the best and worst public schools, based on a new report that analyzed multiple aspects of state education systems. However, several education experts have cautioned against placing too much stock in such rankings.
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... In its 2026 ranking, World Population Review listed New York as the state with the best public schools in the nation. Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Illinois rounded out the top five. On the other end of the spectrum, Arizona ranked at last. Alaska, Nevada, Oklahoma and New Mexico also ranked among the states with the worst public schools. The report's ranking was based on four categories: K-12 performance, such as graduation rates and test scores; school funding and resources; higher education quality; and school safety. ...
The report's ranking was based on four categories: K-12 performance, such as graduation rates and test scores; school funding and resources; higher education quality; and school safety. ...
#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-07-21 01:18 PM | Reply
The regime is not in the least bit interested in education but, rather, threatened by it.
#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-07-21 01:20 PM | Reply
It's nonsense to say which state when within the states huge disparities exist between school districts.
#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-07-21 01:23 PM | Reply
The more educated a person is, the more they vote for Dems over Repubs.
Which is why MAGA hates edumacation.
#4 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-21 05:44 PM | Reply
In order for someone to believe education is a threat to you or your ideology, you'd have to be a little educated to actually understand that.
You can't be too dumb to know enough to hate education. You have to be smart enough to see education as a threat.
Also, is it a belief that states choose their school performances?
Because if you do, then you accept that cities choose all of their performances.
crime, poverty, etc.....all the problems that plague portions of all major cities. It's not that simple, IMO.
Anyway, Like with quality of life issues.....it's too broad to define it by state. It's too different between urban and rural areas even in the same state.
Johnson County Kansas has pretty highly ranked schools.....but...duh, they are in Kansas....so.....bad schools.....
Is this where people start shitting on private schools again?
#5 | Posted by eberly at 2026-07-21 05:53 PM | Reply
#5 | Posted by eberly
The Shawnee Mission school district in NE JoCo was one of the best in the country when I attended, early '70s. Then, consolidation with the rest of the county happened and Republican religious nuts took over the Board of Ed.
#6 | Posted by morris at 2026-07-21 07:00 PM | Reply
Slave holders didn't want slaves to be literate.
It's easier to control uneducated people because they don't have the ability to make broad generalizations unless they have access to more information.
Preventing them from getting that information is the goal.
The Internet gives everyone access to information.
AI corrupts that information so it's often inaccurate.
Is this a feature or a Bug?
#7 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-07-21 07:17 PM | Reply
You have to be smart enough to see education as a threat. #5 | Posted by eberly
I'd love it if you were right. Unfortunately, all you need to see education as a threat is: To fear smart people.
That's why Conservatives love pointing out that educated people lean left. Because leaning left is what the scary Socialists and Communists do.
#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-07-21 07:25 PM | Reply
6
Olathe, Blue Valley, and Shawnee Mission are all at the top.
#9 | Posted by eberly at 2026-07-21 07:33 PM | Reply
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