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DeSantis vetoes all arts grants in Florida
(www.nytimes.com)
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That is one sketchy ranking if I ever saw one.
OP is being dishonest about it too. It's #1 for higher education in Florida, #10 for K-12. And I'm not sure where they get #10 from because it looks like it's marginally above average based on their own numbers.
In fact, as far as I can tell, their whole metric for #1 is because Florida college students end up in less debt than in other states. And that is great, don't get me wrong, but not exactly the best education metric.
It's a bit silly that Florida ranks above states like Massachusetts and California when it comes to higher education. I don't know that any Florida university comes close to Harvard or CalTech. Cheaper, sure. A better quality education? I doubt it.
Same for economics. Their metrics are slightly above average, how is that #1?
I hadn't even looked into it after seeing how bogus the education numbers were, but that also doesn't shock me.
It also occurred to me that their main metric for K-12 education was high school graduation rate and since there's no national education standards, that can mean different things for different states. The other metric was a math score based on something I've never heard of, but it was not a test my 14-year-old here in Indiana has taken yet and it's not the SATs.
And part of their education score is "citizens holding degrees" which... That's not education, that's attainment rate.
And a lot of those citizens are retirees from other states who can afford to retire in Florida. So of course they're more likely to hold degrees.
"Your education system is better because it has a lower percentage of school age children"
Brilliant
Their whole methodology is not well outlined, and it's unclear how they calculated anything. For example, they ranked Florida as having cheaper college than Wyoming, but on average college in Florida costs 3 times as much as in Wyoming?
I'm sort of wondering if the ranking is based on how much money the state has given U.S. News to rank them where they're ranked.
Because DeSantis using money that could have otherwise been used as arts funding to pay off organizations to give Florida high education rankings would be pretty on brand for him.
The quality of education in these states varies radically by zip code and regional average income.
In California, the local school board superintendent Joseph Komrosky lost a recall election for trying to ban critical race theory (a thing his district wasn't formally teaching) on campuses, among other shady bullshit. But his ilk isn't unusual in the right wing fruit basket of SoCal or the Techbro patriarchy infesting the Stanford campus.
Education in these states can be better. But it can also be right in line with the Florida reactionary crowd, and for the same reasons. This is a national project by American plutocrats to brainwash the next generation of young people.