>Blue states still have better public schools than red states I don't think the metric used gives the entire picture. It's pointing out the percentage of natio

>Blue states still have better public schools than red states I don't think the metric used gives the entire picture. It's pointing out the percentage of nationally-ranked schools and ignores everything below that threshold. >So even if they are sending them to private schools, the public schools that "they won't send them to" STILL do better than the public schools in conservative states. The urban school that the wealthy whites are avoiding probably isn't nationally ranked. >for their desire to defund public education Who wants to do that? It's about the amount spent, not defunding.