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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]None of the above.  The best answer for job growth and quality public schools and excellent public and private colleges as well is…Massachusetts.  [i]Been top by a long shot for 25 years[/i]…and likely 25 more.[/quote]
Incorrect.[/quote]

Correct.  There I fixed it for you.  NAEP scores. PISA scores (only state to rank internationally); average SAT scores (only DODEA defeats them).  All top.  They have among the fastest growing economies in the United States.  Harvard, MIT, Tufts for private; UMass (granted Amherst) public.  Your Virginia and Maryland debate is comical.  Neither can beat MA for the three qualities of success: job growth, public schools and great universities.  Sorry.  Saying ‘incorrect’ is not changing those facts.[/quote]

Incorrect. It's pretty obvious that you think education started in the last few years. Historically, the top 3 states for education have been Maryland, Massachusetts and New Jersey (not in any order). MD was the top school for education consecutively up until around 2014...
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-schools-ranked-number-one-in-nation/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/maryland-schools-insider/post/maryland-schools-ranked-number-one--again/2012/01/11/gIQA7NEqrP_blog.html

MD was the top performer in USNews' "how the states compare" for HS rankings for many years up until 2017.

MD Tops the nation on AP Exams passing rate for over 10 years straight until MA surpassed it in 2016.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/maryland-high-school-seniors-top-the-nation-on-ap-exams/2014/02/11/74b57000-9333-11e3-83b9-1f024193bb84_story.html

When you said MA has been on top for 25, 30 years, you are incorrect. [/quote]

MA has been number 1 in the main test the Feds use to judge public schools since 1993: NAEP.  These other articles you cite have different methodologies so we could argue ad infinitum as to their merit (diversity, funding, curricula).  I will leave other more rational readers with this: if Maryland were so great why did their own leaders (republican and democrat) fund the Kirwan Commission study in 2016 who admitted in 2020 the high ‘results’ for at least the past decade were bunk.  They were surprised themselves if you care to read their executive summary!  There is no such report for Massachusetts since their reform from 1993.  This is why Maryland would like to add 4 billion to their education fund under the Blueprint for Maryland, although Governor Hogan is concerned that’s too much money.  In summary: No long term successful state would produce the Kirwan report - MA doesn’t have one.  [/quote]

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