With the Every Student Succeeds Act shaping curriculums and students getting closer to the end of their summer breaks, the personal finance website WalletHub is releasing its report of 2018’s States with the Best and Worst School Systems. WalletHub compared the 50 states and Washington D.C.
Analyst Jill Gonzalez says their research covered a variety of factors. (Full Story)
“Georgia ranked 38th overall, so not in the bottom 10, but not in the top half either,” according to Gonzalez. “We looked at two different categories, one was quality; so things like test scores, pupil-to-teacher ratio, teacher certification. The other was safety, that’s things like bullying incidents, both on school property and online, the share of armed high school students and any laws regulating mandatory school resource officers.”
Gonzalez says the state could do better in at least one area.
“Specifically when it comes to that safety metric. We’re seeing there are a larger share of high school students not attending school due to safety concerns here in Georgia, more threatened and injured high school students, so obviously clear red flags.”
Massachusetts had the best rated school system at number one of the list, followed by New Jersey and Connecticut. The bottom of the list included the District of Columbia, Louisiana and New Mexico which came in dead last at number 51 on the list.
More than 50 million American students attended public schools in 2017, or 90% of the nation’s students according to the U.S. Department of Educations.
For more information
https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-the-best-schools/5335/.
