An education group says Florida has the second best education policies in the country, just after Louisiana.
But the state's high ranking comes from recent state education laws that are in line with the group's agenda.
The education advocacy group Students First published the report. It gave Florida a B minus for its education policies. No state received an A.
And the reason Florida scored so well has a lot to do with a 2011 state law that required teacher evaluations and teacher-pay based on performance, which the group highly supports.
Students First have lobbies hard in Florida to allow parents to take over low performing schools. And it wants the state to approve charter schools, not school districts.
The group gave California an F grade, and a state superintendent called that grade a "badge of honor," according to the New York Times. New York got a D.