{"id":914,"date":"2007-03-28T10:03:34","date_gmt":"2007-03-28T14:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=914"},"modified":"2007-03-28T10:03:34","modified_gmt":"2007-03-28T14:03:34","slug":"charter-schools-and-accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=914","title":{"rendered":"Charter schools and accountability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Orlando Sentinel has been running a series of articles, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/orl-special-charterschools,0,2422756.htmlpage\">Missing the Grade<\/a>, on the double standard of accountability in Florida public education. Apparently, Escambia Charter School <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/orl-special-charterschools-part3,0,5990519.htmlpage\">rented out its students<\/a> &#8220;to cut roadside grass and weeds during class time for about 32 hours per week.&#8221;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think this is what Florida Governor Charlie Crist had in mind when he willingly accepted the moniker Chain-Gang Charlie for his proposal years ago to bring back a privatized prisoner work-crew system.<\/p>\n<p>Among the various crimes (including grand theft that the school pleaded no contest on): the place is still open. This is not how a charter system is supposed to function.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orlando Sentinel has been running a series of articles, Missing the Grade, on the double standard of accountability in Florida public education. Apparently, Escambia Charter School rented out its students &#8220;to cut roadside grass and weeds during class time for about 32 hours per week.&#8221;&nbsp; I don&#8217;t think this is what Florida Governor Charlie [&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-914","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-eK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","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=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}