“There’s a lot of what my father used to call heifer dust that’s spread around,” Bud said in reference to the questionable ranking.
(In case you wondered, heifer dust is a family-friendly term for something you find in cow pastures.)
Among our issues, Education Week doesn’t account for last year’s budget cuts and a decade-long trend of declining state support for public schools. The Florida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy also calls attention to our D-minus for student achievement (scores on national standardized tests), F for funding per student, and F for college readiness (the state’s high-school graduation rate is 45th in the country).
You can learn more by downloading the issue brief from the Florida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy here.
Keep a look out for Worst To First to announce the winner of our video contest soon.
