Always good to cite your sources. (= * Education Spending Per Student by State || http://www.governing.com/gov-data/education-data/state-education-spending-per

Always good to cite your sources. (= * Education Spending Per Student by State || http://www.governing.com/gov-data/education-data/state-education-spending-per-pupil-data.html http://www.governing.com/gov-data/education-data/state-educa... I find this really interesting -- I wasn't able to figure out how to subtract transportation costs from the spend per pupil, probably good to also normalize school building maintenance costs where labor is more expensive. So this is certainly from the hip... If we assume the folks at US News did an OK job of ranking education performance... * How States Compare in the 2016 Best High Schools Rankings | Best High Schools | US News || http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/articles/how-states-compare http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/articles/h... Then we see that the states that were able to get the most bang for their buck were: 1) Utah 2) Florida 3) California 4) Nevada 5) Colorado 6) Arizona 7) Oklahoma 8) Georgia 9) Texas 10) Kentucky It'd be curious to look for similarities between these states. I suspect America is too diverse of a place that we won't find a one-size-fits-all answer to education. Vouchers may help some states, hurt others. Religious participation and divorce rates may help some states but not matter at all in others. Raw spend may matter (seems to help CT and DC), or not at all (seems to not matter much in AK or WY -- this is where factoring out transportation and school maintenance seems like it'd be important). Utah spends less than any state and still has exceptional performance... wonder if it scales... can you add more money to improve or does money not even matter?