{"id":18,"date":"2010-02-25T09:16:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T16:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2010-02-27T09:46:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T16:46:10","slug":"wounding-public-school-choice-in-l-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Wounding Public School Choice in L.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Unified School District board did serious damage to their Public School Choice plan on Tuesday. \u00a0They amended Superintendent Ramon Cortines&#8217; recommendations to remove the strongest of the charter school applicants, those that could have been future contenders to take over failing schools. \u00a0The district has more than 100 schools that have been in federal program improvement status for more than three years. \u00a0This action represents a real setback for the District as it muddles its way from a hierarchy to a network. \u00a0A contest over school design is impossible unless there is a variety of applicants, and the chilled competition rather than inviting it. \u00a0More about the Public School Choice process in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/charles-kerchner\/\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a> columns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Unified School District board did serious damage to their Public School Choice plan on Tuesday. \u00a0They amended Superintendent Ramon Cortines&#8217; recommendations to remove the strongest of the charter school applicants, those that could have been future contenders to take over failing schools. \u00a0The district has more than 100 schools that have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}