[GFK_of_xmaspast]

From the first paragraph of the article: "When the Education Department releases its biennial scorecard of reading and math scores for all 50 states this week, Florida and Texas are likely to look pretty mediocre. In 2013, the last time that scores were released, Florida ranked 30th on the tests, which are given to fourth and eighth graders, and Texas ranked 32nd."

And: > Plenty of Californians are moving here, many intent on advocating for the same policies here

Let's hope they succeed. Texas delenda est and all that.

[vaadu]

These refugees from bankrupted states are locusts that destroy the prosperity in one state, then move on to other prosperous states.

[woah]

California pays America's bills.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/which-st...

[jdminhbg]

Read the entire article.

The upshot is that TX and FL perform very well when demographics are adjusted for; which is to say, it's a much easier job to teach reading to eighth-generation Americans in Iowa or Connecticut than to kids who arrived in the US last week.