Idaho Legislators Are 73% Educated

The Chronicle of Higher Education is out with new research about the educational attainment of all of the country’s 7,000 state legislators.

Key nuggets in the report: while only about 28% of adult Americans have an undergraduate degree, no state has less than 53% of legislators with a degree. It also doesn’t make much difference to a legislator’s support for higher education where they went to college and most, like most college going Americans, went to a public school.  Read more from The Johnson Post .

• To see stats on Idaho’s legislators, click here .
• Read the new research in the Chronicle of Higher Education here .

Are you surprised that 73% of the Idaho legislators have college degrees?  Are you concerned that this percentage is out of proportion with the general public they represent?