{"id":1575,"date":"2013-06-04T07:28:29","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T11:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2013-06-04T07:38:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T11:38:26","slug":"public-education-needs-to-be-fixed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=1575","title":{"rendered":"Public Education Needs to Be Fixed&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MLMG070.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1576\" alt=\"Public Education Needs to Be Fixed\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MLMG070.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MLMG070.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MLMG070-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2013\/06\/MLMG070.jpg&amp;name=Public Education Needs to Be Fixed...\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/buy.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Originally published in the <em>Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News<br \/>\n<\/em>June 2, 2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Not much to add here, really. At the Mackinac Policy Conference last week, there was much talk about improvements to public education, including guest speakers Jeb Bush and Michelle Rhee. It struck me &#8212; in ten years when the Democratic president proposes an overhaul to the public education system that includes vouchers and charter schools, it will be interesting to see how exactly Republicans turn on their ideas and decide it had always been lousy, stinkin&#8217; socialism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News June 2, 2013 Not much to add here, really. At the Mackinac Policy Conference last week, there was much talk about improvements to public education, including guest speakers Jeb Bush and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlive-media-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1580,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions\/1580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}