If you can read this, you might not have been educated in an Arizona public school. OK, that’s a gross exaggeration. The state’s underfunded public schools and the people who work in them are doing their damnedest to smarten up our children. But the challenge before them is gargantuan. According to a new study, out of 51 public school systems in the country — all 50 states plus Washington, D.C. — Arizona’s public schools rank 48th.
