[daedrdev]

Adjusted for income its really bad. Income is the strongest causes of academic performance, so if you adjust for them California is doing way worse than other states.

[dmoy]

CA also scores middle of the pack on nominal poverty rate (OPM), but last in the country on cost of living adjusted poverty rate (SPM). If anything though, that means backwards from what I would expect for income controlled education scores... ?

[gamblor956]

This is false. Adjusted for income CA students outperform most other states because CA has one of the largest populations of low income students.

[yepitwas]

Huge ESOL population, too (but to be fair, Texas and several other states also face that challenge)

[gamblor956]

Yes they have large ESL populations but CAs is much larger and those other states fare worse by any breakdown.