{"id":797,"date":"2006-12-06T23:34:12","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T03:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=797"},"modified":"2006-12-06T23:34:12","modified_gmt":"2006-12-07T03:34:12","slug":"education-has-only-non-florida-leaders-in-crist-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=797","title":{"rendered":"Education has only non-Florida leaders in Crist transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Crist transition site list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cristtransition.com\/news\/2006\/12\/06\/crist-announces-citizen-review-group-team-leaders\/\">leaders of citizen review boards<\/a>, everyone <em>except<\/em> those leading the group on education are from Florida or (in a few cases) has strong ties to the state from living here at least a few years.&nbsp; The exceptions?&nbsp; Paul Peterson and Marty West, who head the education group. Peterson was a prime mover in the Hoover Institution&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoover.org\/publications\/books\/3895672.html\">Reforming Education in Florida<\/a> (2006). According to West&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/research.brown.edu\/pdf\/1154701612.pdf\">vitae<\/a>, he just graduated from Harvard&#8217;s government\/social policy doctoral program, with Peterson as his advisor. <\/p>\n<p>Why the exception in education? I can speculate, but this would be a great thing for reporters to go after. I suspect they won&#8217;t, because the half-million-dollar donations that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sptimes.com\/2006\/12\/06\/State\/Perks_to_be_pricey_on.shtml\">the governor-elect is asking for his inauguration<\/a> are just too juicy, especially with <a href=\"http:\/\/miamiherald.typepad.com\/nakedpolitics\/2006\/12\/still_no_donor_.html\">a surprising lack of disclosure about the donors<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Crist transition site list of leaders of citizen review boards, everyone except those leading the group on education are from Florida or (in a few cases) has strong ties to the state from living here at least a few years.&nbsp; The exceptions?&nbsp; Paul Peterson and Marty West, who head the education group. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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-797","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-cR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","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=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}