Many analysts and pundits speak of United States education as if it were one unit, but in reality every state and locality decides how much money to allocate towards education and how to allocate it. There are some federal guidelines and some federal spending, of course, but in the end every state is a micro-laboratory for education.
Click on the tabs (High School Grad Rate, etc.) to see different educational metrics and then click on the states below to see where they rank!