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Dec
The county as a whole once again receives a C grade despite some battles for position across individual states in the recently released "Quality Counts 2019," the 23rd annual report card of national education systems published by the Education Week Testing Facility. New Jersey gets the top spot. The third volume of the report, which synthesizes 39 indicators covering a variety of socioeconomic, academic, and financial elements influencing state school system excellence, is released today. The final grades show several recurring trends except for a change at the top. No state scored higher than Massachusetts' 88.4 in the academic accomplishment…