Michelle Rhee’s anti-teachers union organization StudentsFirst has just put out a “report card” of education systems state by state. In the ranking, which can be found here, Louisiana and Florida are the two top-rated states.

The placing of these two states at the top of the list is curious. StudentsFirst gave higher ratings to states that emphasized the use of charter schools and teacher evaluations based on high-stakes testing. But her organization ignored actual results. For example, it gave a “D” rating — the second-worst — toAi??Massachusetts, which has some of the highest test scores on theAi??Ai??National Assessment ofAi??EducationalAi??Progress exam.

There is one thing that Florida and Louisiana have in common — they are among the worst states for teacher compensation. Florida in 2011 ranked 47th in the country for teacher salaries. Louisiana’s average teacher salary is 42nd in the country.

To put things in perspective, the starting salary of a teacher in Catahoula Parish in Lousiana who has a bachelor’s degree is $31,322. That’s less money than Rhee charges for one speech she gives. It appears that Rhee’s ratings of education systems disregard poor wages for the actual educators.

Many leading educators are not giving Rhee’s system much credibility. “This is an organization that makes its living by asserting that schools are failing. I would have been surprised if we had got anything else,” saidAi??Californiaai??i??s deputy superintendent of schools, Richard Zeigler, about Rhee’s “F” rating of California’s schools.