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[quote=Anonymous]Yes to noting the inherent problem in comparing a very dense, urban muncipality to states, but I do agree it's interesting.

Mostly it just helps you to see how poverty rates are so closely correlated with education quality. Like why does Michigan score so much lower than Minnesota? Well the cities in Michigan have higher poverty rates than those in Minnesota, that's why. It's why New Mexico is last (sky high poverty rates) and Mass/Conn/NJ score so high (lots of rich people living in the suburbs of thriving cities with high paying jobs there, and in Conn/NJ, they don't even deal with the negatives of actually having the city in their state).

In that context, it's interesting to look at DC scores, because I think the reason we're smack in the middle is that while of course we have a lot of poverty as a major city, we also have a lot of rich people with high paying jobs. And more and more of these people are choosing to live in DC instead of in the suburbs, and to send their kids to public schools, which is actually pretty high compliment to something DCPS and the charters are doing.

DC also doesn't deal with any rural poverty, which I think can be a harder problem to overcome with regards to education because in a city you can easily transport poor kids to the resources, but that's not true in rural areas. Kids in DC can all benefit from something like MLK library, and amazing resource, and it's basically impossible to make that kind of resource available to kids in rural Mississippi.[/quote]

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