EDUCATION NEWS Texas Ranked 43rd In Nation On 2016 Education Quality Report Overall, Texas scored a C- and on school finance, it earned a D.
The grades don’t look good for the Lone Star State.
Overall, Texas got a C-. It got the same grade for student achievement in grades K-12. It posted a C on students’ chance for success later in life. But on school finance, Texas got a D.
This is the annual report card called “ Quality Counts ” from Education Week’s Research Center . The publication has produced them for two decades.
This year Texas, dropped slightly to 43rd place among all the states and the District of Columbia.
Massachusetts won the top ranking again, earning a B+ overall. Nevada ranked the worst with a D. Overall, the nation posted a solid C.
In a statement, the Texas Education Agency dismissed the rankings, saying that “it’s difficult to effectively evaluate the state’s performance from a national report where no state made the highest grade, no state made the lowest grade and the majority of states were all lumped into the same grade category.”
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It's a horrible thing when a state puts their youths education at the bottom of the must do list.
I agree. It's poor prioritization. Just like good health is, a good education as really a National Security issue and should be looked at as such. When all or most Americans are healthy, well fed and well educated, then we are a much, much stronger country. Unfortunately some people are just too short sighted to see this and instead think tax breaks for the rich are the way to go. I would like to remind them that most of our military is not drawn from the ranks of the well to do.
"I would like to remind them that most of our military is not drawn from the ranks of the well to do."
Maybe so, but I once posted an article on Classic Cinema group about the rich and famous actors and other celebrities who voluteered and served back during WWII.
There were many. Just of the top of my head there were two of the Kennedy brothers, Eddie Albert, Clark Gable and James Stewart. It's a shame we don't seem to see as much of that today.
Buzz,
This is true, but there was also a time in our history, that it wasn't true. During the civil war, people could buy their way out of the war by paying $300. This lead to a lot of resentment in our white poor, who couldn't buy their way out of the war which lead to the NYC draft riots where 120 blacks were hanged or burned to death.
And that little fact I learned in school.
California has a problem because you don't have local school taxes and your state distributes to all the schools equally. That being said, you have one of the best state University systems in the US, so obviously, something is right.
''Well I went to the list and my good for nothing state with few redeeming values,''
You seem quite hateful today, XX.....
Projecting much??? Step away from that mirror.
No projecting on my part, simply using your own words to show your hateful rhetoric....
Keep up the good work, it's entertaining.
You seem quite hateful today, XX.....
Even a bit more then usual. Which must require considerable effort.
''Well I went to the list and my good for nothing state with few redeeming values,''
Move.
Not a chance in H---. I love it where I live and have no intention of moving. I intend to leave Ca. by shifting its I-5 border from present location to between Arbuckle and Dunigan.
Never going to happen. There will never be a state of Jefferson. The state legislature, Democratic as it is now or even if it become Republican, will never allow it to happen. Your stuck with being a Californian unless you move to another state. Deal with it.
Our founding fathers really valued a well educated populace, and were very pro public education. Texas needs to take this part of our history to heart.
Perhaps the members of the Texas Education Agency received their history lessons in Texas and were not taught that.
LOL Good point!
Good thing you're not comparing your education levels with Canada:
Canada has amazing schools like England used to.
Well this certainly explains my idiocy.
Snort on the thumbs up Dean. I'm surprised there weren't 5 or 6 more.
I believe it. I know someone who lives in the Austin area.
Texas, one of the states with the highest percentage of foreign born students, is struggling with education. The socialist paradise of California, with the highest percentage of foreign born students, is ranked 42, a whole .01 points ahead of Texas.
What a shock! it's almost like those things might be related.
Good point.
Latinos now comprise more than 50 percent of students in the Texas public schools. Newly released statistics by the Texas Education Agency show there are 2,480,000 Hispanic students in the state’s public schools, representing 50.2 percent of the total enrollment, which is 4,933,617.
These numbers are forcing some Texas school districts to question just how equipped they are to teach a burgeoning number of poor students who don’t speak English.
So far, studies by NCLR, Texas Familias Council and Texas Higher Education Journal show Texas schools have not been doing a good job teaching Hispanic children.
According to state figures, 46 percent of Latino fourth graders and 62 percent of English language learner fourth graders in Texas schools read below grade level.
Latino students are nearly twice more likely to leave school without a diploma than non-Hispanic white students.
Almost 40 percent of the state’s Latinos 25 or older did not complete high school, compared with 8 percent among non-Hispanic whites, according to the 2010 census
I was actually heartened by this report. Kentucky has languished along the bottom of state's rankings for decades, and at least we earned a C-- so that is something! We've brought our grade up!
Did anyone see where Mississippi stood? I couldn't find them-- usually Mississippi and KY vie for last place...