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What I believe we are seeing here is that some politicians think people
are more afraid of being taxed than widespread illiteracy in some areas:

                    Public             Mean
 1991-1992     high school  Pupils   salary Expenditure
 Primary and    Graduation     per       of     per
 Secondary ed.        rate teacher teachers   pupil
               =========== ======= ========  ======
United States         71%    17.3  $34,098   $5,245
               ----------- ------- --------  ------
 Corelations for nonaggregate data below
   Pupils:teacher   -0.22     1
      Teacher pay   -0.02    -0.10       1
   Pupil spending    0.03    -0.51       0.83     1
               ----------- ------- --------  ------
Alabama               66%    17.8  $26,951   $3,627
Alaska                72     16.7   44,718    8,330
Arizona               72     19.3   31,176    4,309
Arkansas              77     17.0   27,070    3,700
California            68     22.8   40,192    4,491
Colorado              75     17.9   33,072    5,064
Connecticut           79     14.0   46,971    7,602
Delaware              68     16.8   34,548    5,865
Washington D.         60     13.2   38,798    9,259
Florida               61     17.6   31,070    5,276
Georgia               64     18.5   29,509    4,466
Hawaii                76     18.5   34,528    5,166
Idaho                 80     19.4   26,334    3,386
Illinois              78     16.8   36,461    5,520
Indiana               75     17.5   34,809    4,930
Iowa                  86     15.7   29,202    4,679
Kansas                81     15.2   30,731    4,874
Kentucky              70     17.2   30,870    4,354
Louisiana             54     16.6   25,948    4,146
Maine                 79     14.0   30,097    5,458
Maryland              73     16.9   38,728    6,566
Massachusetts         80     15.1   37,256    6,366
Michigan              70     19.2   41,149    5,883
Minnesota             90     17.2   34,451    5,239
Mississippi           62     17.9   24,367    3,187
Missouri              73     15.8   28,895    4,754
Montana               85     15.8   27,590    5,204
Nebraska              86     14.7   27,231    5,038
Nevada                77     18.6   33,857    4,653
New Hampshire         76     15.5   33,170    5,672
New Jersey            82     13.8   41,027    8,645
New Mexico            70     17.6   26,389    3,895
New York              64     15.4   43,335    8,565
North Carolin         68     16.8   28,791    4,488
North Dakota          87     15.3   24,495    4,199
Ohio                  72     17.3   33,243    5,245
Oklahoma              76     15.6   25,339    3,791
Oregon                72     18.6   34,100    5,683
Pennsylvania          79     16.8   38,715    6,541
Rhode Island          74     14.6   36,417    6,343
South Carolin         61     16.9   28,068    4,351
South Dakota          84     14.8   23,291    3,965
Tennessee             68     19.4   28,621    3,782
Texas                 66     15.8   29,041    4,438
Utah                  79     24.9   26,339    2,960
Vermont               81     13.8   33,646    6,738
Virginia              74     15.7   31,657    4,836
Washington            73     20.2   34,823    5,000
West Virginia         78     15.3   27,366    4,911
Wisconsin             83     15.7   35,227    5,871
Wyoming               82     15.6   30,425    5,723
Source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Education, 1991