I was ready to chime in if TX was on the list. All I know is that when kids transfer into our area from CA, high schoolers are two years behind TX kids.
A visit to my kids' elementary school many years ago started my sister on the path to conservatism. She saw the facilities we had. When she asked the principal at my nephew's school in CA, she received an unsatisfactory and nasty response, i.e. it must be a "white bread" school district.
I prepared her for that, and she responded with "over 50 languages are spoken in that school district, and I saw mostly Koreans, Indians, and Hispanics! And they don't teach Ebonics!"
Within an hour, my nephew was transferred to a charter school.
No, I hate those articles, too, but I figured since I posted it, I had a responsibility to set it out for readers to make it easy.
In my opinion, the dumbest states are those that elected Obama. That’s all I need to know.