I don't know if you noticed but Forbes must not know where Bloomington, MN is located in relation to Minneapolis and St. Paul. They listed Bloomington, WI, where ever that is. :)

My mistake....

Not sure where the WI comes from. If you click through to the list, it's Bloomington MN, they mention the Mall of America.

I am stunned that Washington DC is number 1 on the list!  They do include private schools, and ours are wonderful (they have to be because the public schools are pretty scary).  But they are really, really expensive.  I think our new mayor is turning it around, and in another couple of years they might be up there.

Wow anonymous that's the same response as some ActiveRain members whose responses were deleted from my blog made.  Maybe blogging about schools is a bad idea because as a real estate agent I certainly don't want to come up in Google searches for someone else's prejudices and nasty opinions about ANY school district. How could I even have opinions about schools at such a distance?

Maybe I was the one who made the assumptions that what Forbes.com is looking at in the region that I can see up close and personal, in our case that is not the just the Columbus school district but the Bexley, Dublin, Grandview,  Gahanna, Hilliard, Olentangy, Plain Local, Southwestern City School District, Upper Arlington, Westerville, Worthington and a bunch of others depending on what is considered Greater Columbus. I'd have to assume the Washington D.C. area and Arlington VA is not one monolithic school district.  

I think if you GO to read what Forbes.com article it says it is about regions, not about A SINGLE SCHOOL DISTRICT.   Of course if you just comment without going to the source linked you might make assumptions and statements about a singular school district.  

And as I recall the public schools are just one of 4 or  5 parts of what was measured.  Columbus (which I am assuming is the region, not a particular school district)  only got a B there... Libraries..colleges,  is another part of the equation.  I can't remember what the 4 or 5 parts were

I posted a list of cities with a link. If disparaging the Washington DC school district is important to you (or to the two ActiveRain members who I have lost a lot of  respect for) please by all means visit Forbes.com and vent your spleen at the source of the info.