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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's interesting, because K-12 public school funding is crap in CA (I'm a product of it).  I went to one of the colleges you listed.

IMO, CA universities are good because there are a lot of really smart kids there, in part, because there are a lot of high paying jobs which attracts smart people.

CA has opened more UC and CSU campuses since I lived/went to school there.  They have  a lot of colleges because they have a lot of people.

It's hard to replicate the success of CA public universities because you need the population size and the high paying jobs to attract smart people to the state.

Unlike NY, CA has high paying jobs both in NorCal and Socal, in several different counties.  oth, for NY, most of the high paying jobs are are concentrated in NYC.

TX and FL have the population size, but not enough metro areas with high paying jobs.  Nor are Rs all that keen on education.[/quote]

Couple of points

1) name a state (other than Massachusetts) where funding and success match in k-12.  My thesis: spending on public education doesn’t correlate to success

2) take a state like Maryland: you’d need a really smart actuary to figure out spending - so much money given away by libs that it distorts what ACTUALLY goes to schools.  But MD spends a lot while Florida spends little.  Guess the better NAEP?  Yep FL by a long shot with similar demographics too.

3) so check your red state bias [/quote]

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