{"id":1720,"date":"2009-09-16T10:26:04","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T14:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2009-09-16T10:26:04","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T14:26:04","slug":"pork-barrel-airplane-hangars-or-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1720","title":{"rendered":"Pork-barrel airplane hangars or science?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida State University physics professor Paul Cottle has <a href=\"http:\/\/bridgetotomorrow.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/16\/science-education-policy-menu-what-would-you-order\/\">a wonderful way<\/a> of comparing the state&#8217;s science-education needs with what the state legislature&#8217;s pork-barrel politics has produced in the recent past: think about the $6 million cost of the airplane hangar former House Speaker Ray Sansom stuffed into the budget a few years ago pretending to be a classroom building for Okaloosa-Walton Community College, and then figure out how many &#8220;Sansom Airplane Hangars&#8221; would be the equivalent of different options for science education. Cottle&#8217;s list includes the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4 Sansom Airplane Hangers = a comprehensive set of end-of-course science exams for high school<\/li>\n<li>5 Sansom Airplane Hangars = comprehensive professional development for science teachers across Florida<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m biased: I have two teenagers in high school, I hate when politics distorts higher-ed governance, and want the state&#8217;s economy to rely on more than tourism, cattle, and real-estate bubbles. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida State University physics professor Paul Cottle has a wonderful way of comparing the state&#8217;s science-education needs with what the state legislature&#8217;s pork-barrel politics has produced in the recent past: think about the $6 million cost of the airplane hangar former House Speaker Ray Sansom stuffed into the budget a few years ago pretending to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-rK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}