In relative terms, Kansas and Missouri state lawmakers are not well educated

Book smarts aren’t everything, of course. But a new overview of the education levels of the more than 7,000 state legislators across the United States sheds some light on the quality of the decision making in Topeka and Jefferson City.

State lawmakers in Kansas and Missouri are not as well educated as legislators in other states, according to data published by The Chronicle of Higher Education. In the United States, 74.7 percent of state lawmakers have at least a bachelor’s degree. In Kansas and Missouri, the numbers are 68.6 and 69.4 percent, respectively.