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Originally Posted by Homeslice
Cali leaders might be questionable, but in terms of the citizenry, you might want to compare educational stats between Cali and Floriduh....
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Floriduh has higher average scores in all aspects and grade levels of the National Assessment of Educational Progress than California according to the U.S. Department of Education. Maybe that is due to California averaging over 25% more students per teacher than Floriduh does.
Comparing percentage of the population with high school diplomas, Floriduh is a not very good 34th with 85.9%, but California is even worse at 45th with 81.3% according to a report from the Census Bureau from 2004.
When talking about post-secondary education California does do better than Floriduh for both bachelors degrees (29.4% vs. 25.4%) and advanced degrees (10.4% vs. 9.1%), but which is more relevant when comparing the total citizenry of states, the relative achievements of the minority or the relative performance of the majority?