Crash Course: Florida ranked No. 1 for "education freedom" — by right-wing group that wants to privatize it all

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(Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Florida ranked No. 1 for "education freedom" — by right-wing group that wants to privatize it all A new education report released Friday by the Heritage Foundation, an influential right-wing think tank, ranks Florida as the best state in the country for "education freedom," with Arizona a close second, and Washington, D.C., New York and most of the Northeast falling to the bottom. That claim, along with the fact that the list's top 20 states are mostly deep "red" and its bottom 10 are almost all dark "blue," might come as a surprise to education watchers who are familiar with more traditional assessments of education performance. 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