A report issued Thursday by Brown's Promise, a group that advocates for school integration, offers a roadmap for officials and advocates to roll up their sleeves and get to work.

Harris has backed Title I and Head Start funding increases, could reenergize school desegregation efforts and would bring civil rights experience to Title IX.

Georgia's school superintendent declined to adopt the course for the state's public schools. That means no state funding will be provided to underwrite the cost of the class.

For the second year in a row, these two states boast the best school systems in the country based on these criteria.