“So what does it mean that Alabama and Mississippi are worse?”
The public schools are from the dregs of Mississippi.
Mississipi resolved federal lawsuits simply by ceasing to fund public schools. Taxes went down and normal people could afford very good quality private schools.
It’s like charter schools, but without government intervention.
These tests were only for public schools.
The sad side of this is the MS public schools are something like 80% black student population.
Are you saying the state of Mississippi does not fund its own public educational system?
http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/article/20091014/NEWS01/910140329/1002/Schools-sacrifice