{"id":1612,"date":"2017-03-08T20:56:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T20:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2017-03-08T20:56:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T20:56:35","slug":"charter-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1612","title":{"rendered":"charter schools?"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Betsy DeVos now in as Education Secretary, all eyes are on charter schools.\u00a0 (Or at least most<\/em> eyes.)\u00a0 With Curtis Bowers, however, not so much.\u00a0 Mr. Bowers is a former principal of a high school in Clarkston, Washington.\u00a0 During a campaign tour stop in Washington, Mr. Bowers told me that federally funded vouchers to allow a child to attend a private school often siphons off the top students from already hurting city schools.\u00a0 Our administration’s paradigm would be to push for every<\/em> school in America becoming charter school quality.\u00a0 And we researched a series of charter school models that could easily be replicated from school to school across the country.\u00a0 One component of these schools, for instance, would be “learning teams,” which are being experimented with in Rhode Island.\u00a0 Each student would have a team (parents, school counselor, teacher, several community members…) who would meet regularly with the student to talk about goals, assess progress, offer, say, a summer job in a professional area a student might be interested in.\u00a0 All this would not only help the student, but connect more community members to the school as well.\u00a0 For a sweeping look at our Education plan across the board, see…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With Betsy DeVos now in as Education Secretary, all eyes are on charter schools.\u00a0 (Or at least most eyes.)\u00a0 With Curtis Bowers, however, not so much.\u00a0 Mr. Bowers is a former principal of a high school in Clarkston, Washington.\u00a0 During …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1613,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions\/1613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}