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Summary High percentage of Arkansas legislature do not have college degree.
The Arkansas legislature has the nations highest percentage of state lawmakers who have not attended college at all.There are 135 legislators 25 percent of whom do not have any college experience. Comparatively 8.7 percent of all state lawmakers nationwide have not attended college. The most formally educated state legislatures are in California, Virginia, Nebraska, New York and Texas. Arkansas ranks 50th among the states in the percentage of residents older than 25 with a bachelors degree. One in five Arkansas ninth-graders does not obtain a high school diploma. Diversity makes Arkansas a lot less polarized than Washington or other states and they work together regardless of party or degrees.The five states with the highest percentage of legislators without any college are Arkansas, Montana, Kansas, South Dakota and Arizona.
