EDUCATION IN AMERICA: STATE-BY-STATE SCORECARD Inputs and Outputs
State-by-State Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming
Education Per Pupil Spending1 Lowest (1) to Performance2 Highest (51) Rank 18 ($9,103) 40 49 ($14,630) 11 3 ($7,608) 45 11 ($8,541) 44 29 ($9,863) 30 16 ($9,079) 17 46 ($13,848) 29 41 ($12,253) 19 48 ($14,594) 26 13 ($9,035) 3 27 (9,788) 27 39 ($11,800) 15 2 ($6,931) 22 34 ($10,246) 38 14 ($9,036) 13 21 ($9,267) 31 25 ($9,667) 7 12 ($8,686) 37 30 ($9,954) 47 37 ($11,572) 14 42 ($12,966) 20 43 ($13,454) 2 31 ($10,069) 49 32 ($10,140) 23 6 ($7,901) 46 20 ($9,216) 34 24 ($9,666) 9 23 ($9,577) 33 8 ($8,285) 18 38 ($11,619) 4 50 ($16,491) 10 15 (9,068) 48 51 ($17,173) 5 7 ($7,996) 41 26 ($9,675) 24 33 ($10,173) 35 4 ($7,685) 43 22 ($9,558) 32 40 ($12,035) 6 44 ($13,539) 25 19 ($9,170) 51 10 ($8,367) 39 5 ($7,739) 36 9 ($8,320) 8 1 ($5,765) 42 47 ($14,300) 1 35 ($10,659) 12 17 ($9,099) 16 28 ($9,825) 50 36 ($10,680) 21 45 ($13,840) 28
Education Reform Action
Graduation Rate
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Percentage3
Charter School Law CER Grade
School Choice5
Change in Proficiency6 Standards 2003-2009
62.5% 65.2% 68.2% 69.3% 62.7% 73.2% 77.7% 65.0% 59.5% 62.1% 57.8% 65.1% 73.5% 74.6% 72.4% 80.2% 75.1% 71.8% 57.4% 77.6% 73.7% 77.3% 77.8% 77.2% 62.5% 75.3% 75.2% 74.3% 41.8% 76.2% 83.3% 54.9% 70.6% 57.8% 80.9% 74.6% 71.8% 74.1% 77.6% 71.1% 54.9% 75.4% 65.8% 65.1% 77.1% 82.3% 69.9% 67.9% 71.6% 81.0% 72.6%
No Law 34 (D) 4 (B) 32 (D) 3 (A) 6 (B) 33 (D) 14 (C) 1 (A) 10 (B) 15 (C) 36 (D) 22 (C) 27 (D) 8 (B) 39 (F) 38 (F) No Law 13 (C) No Law 35 (D) 17 (C) 5 (B) 2 (A) 41 (F) 9 (B) No Law No Law 23 (C) 31 (D) 19 (C) 24 (B) 7 (B) 30 (D) No Law 18 (C) 26 (C) 21 (C) 12 (B) 28 (D) 20 (C) No Law 25 (C) 29 (D) 11 (B) No Law 40 (F) No Law No Law 16 (C) 37 (D)
none public public, tax credit public public public public public public, voucher* public, tax credit, voucher public, tax credit, voucher public public public, tax credits public, tax credits public, tax credits public public public, tax credits, vouchers public, voucher none public public public, tax credits public public public public public public public public public none public public, vouchers public, vouchers public public, tax credits public, tax credits public public public public public, vouchers public, vouchers none public public public, vouchers (Milwaukee) public
-3.0 +22.1 -48.5 -32.2 -35.3 +57.0 +7.2 -4.1 +5.8 -5.0 +24.2 +9.2 -2.1 -30.5 +22.1 +9.0 -2.5 -17.3 -2.4 -11.5 -39.1 +8.2 -27.8 New +38.5 +4.8 +50.5 -8.2 +2.2 New +36.1 +19.4 -36.9 +32.8 -8.9 -5.3 +44.4 -13.7 -2.3 +2.9 -65.2 +18.5 -1.0 +14.5 +40.3 +15.9 +4.2 +33.8 +46.7 +28.9 -41.3
1 2008 Annual Survey of Local Government Finances - School Systems, Per Pupil Amounts for Current Spending of Public Elementary-Secondary School Systems by State: 2007-08. U.S. Census Bureau, 2008. http://www.census.gov/govs/school/ 2
American Legislative Exchange Council Report Card on Education 16th Edition. p 112. Ranking based on the overall 2009 scores for low-income children and their gains/ losses on NAEP 4th and 8th grade reading and math exams from 2003-2009. http://whttp://www.alec.org/AM/pdf/education/2010_reportcard/finalcopycondensed.pdf 3 4
Graduation by the Numbers, Diplomas Count: Education Week. Vol. 98, No. 34. June 2010. http://www.edweek.org/ew/toc/2010/06/10/index.html 2011 Charter School Laws Across the States: Ranking and Scorecard. The Center for Education Reform, Washgington DC. 2010. http://www.edreform.com/_upload/ranking_chart.pdf
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School Choice Key: public = open enrollment policies between and/or among public school districts; voucher = publically funded voucher program, which may include public, private, or parochial schools, and may support specific student populations; tax credit = business or individual credit for monetary contributions to school tuition organizations (reference: The Heritage Foundation, "School Choice in America," December 2009, http://www.heritage.org/applications/schoolchoice. The Foundation for Educational Choice, "School Choice in Your State," December 2010, http://www.edchoice.org/School-Choice/School-Choice-in-Your-State.aspx.) *DC Opportunity Scholarship is no longer accepting new students.
6 This rating compared state achievement test standards with those in NAEP math and reading tests for the years 2003, 2005, 2007, and 2009. For each available test, the difference between the percentage of students who were proficient on NAEP and the percentage reported to be proficient on the state’s own tests were computed for the same year. The standard deviation for this difference was also computed. Then, it was determined how many standard deviations each state’s difference was above or below the average difference of all observations on each test. State Standards Rise in Reading, Fall in Math, Education Next. Vol. 10, No. 4. Fall 2010 http://educationnext.org/state-standards-rising-in-reading-but-not-in-math/
Compiled by The Center for Education Reform, December 2010