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Jamelia Todd
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Jamelia Todd
Date: none, 2020
The publication known for it’s rankings of higher education institutions also rates the 50 states on their individual merits, and has concluded that Virginia is the 7th best state for education in the country for 2019.
In fact it was the metric we were the strongest on relative to other states, followed by fiscal stability, opportunity, and crime and corrections. The top state for education was Massachusetts.
In all there were a total of 71 different metrics used to compare states, and we placed an identical 7th as a state.
- Massachusetts
- New Jersey
- Florida
- Washington
- New Hampshire
- Nebraska
- Virginia
- Vermont
- Iowa
- Utah
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