All of us will pay for the states that don;t educate their children

Source: NAEP State Profiles

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, states that are much worse than the national average in achievement of 8th grade students include California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and West Virginia. I doubt that it is the high level of solar radiation that keeps these kids from getting even an average U.S. education.

If we let a large portion of our kids fall behind in education, the economy is not likely to do well in an increasingly global economy that those kids will face for the next half century.

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