Maryland’s state government gets a “B” in management, according to a report issued this month by the Pew Center on the States. It’s a pretty good rating, compared with the rest of the country (Virginia beats us with an “A-,“ and is tied with Utah and Washington State for tops on the list).

One of the most prominent issues in the study is government accountability.

The Pew researchers took quite a shine to Gov. Martin O’Malley and his work in last year’s special tax-raising legislative session. It also lauds the goals of O’Malley’s StateStat performance measurement program, but faults aspects of the state’s information technology system.

“The impact of StateStat will not be known for a long time—there are obvious snags in converting a city system to a much larger entity with less-than-spectacular information technology,” the report (check it out) reads, comparing the system to Baltimore’s CitiStat system. “But promoters of StateStat believe that the obstacles can be overcome and that the system will generate savings proportional to the millions accrued in Baltimore.”