CA’s K-12 spending exorbitant, but ranked #41 nationwide for school quality

Politicians against school choice lament that giving parents the freedom of selection purloins precious funding from public schools, which will lead to declined quality. WalletHub’s most recent report proves otherwise: California’s public school expenses are high, yet only ten U.S. states have worse educational quality. Is school choice an issue of money, as goes detractors’ talking point—or does CA face serious management problems?

Methodology

In order to determine the best and worst states for public-school education, WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across two key dimensions, “Quality” and “Safety.”

We evaluated those dimensions using 32 relevant metrics, which are listed below with their corresponding weights. Each metric was graded on a 100-point scale, with a score of 100 representing the highest quality of public K–12 education.

Finally, we determined each state and the District’s weighted average across all metrics to calculate its overall score and used the resulting scores to rank-order our sample.

This article originally appeared in WalletHub. Read the whole thing here.

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