{"id":2578,"date":"2002-06-28T11:20:33","date_gmt":"2002-06-28T11:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=123"},"modified":"2002-06-28T11:20:33","modified_gmt":"2002-06-28T11:20:33","slug":"gray-davis-the-education-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2578","title":{"rendered":"GRAY DAVIS, THE EDUCATION GOVERNOR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&#8217;s L.A. Weekly (I was looking for a plastic surgeon, outcall escort, and a restaurant for dinner Saturday night&#8230;), Marc Cooper, no friend of the Republican party, goes after our education first, second and third <a href=\"http:\/\/66.70.64.17\/ink\/02\/32\/dissonance-cooper.php\" target=\"browser\">Governor Skybox<\/a>.<br \/>\nA sample:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But on the moral test of his own administration, the governor simply flunks out. Davis&#8217; response to the lawsuit has been to stonewall the issue, prolong the case, run up a gigantic legal tab to the benefit of some of his powerhouse campaign contributors, and allow little Johnny to twist slowly, slowly in the wind.<br \/>\nFor anyone who doubts the state of our schools, I recommend a review of a recent Harris survey of California public school teachers, which can be found on the Web at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicadvocates.org\" target=\"browser\">www.publicadvocates.org<\/a>. Of 6 million public school students in the state, 19 percent attend schools where at least a fifth of the teachers are uncredentialed, 32 percent go to schools without enough textbooks to be taken home for study, and 32 percent find classrooms either uncomfortably hot or cold. A million students deal with closed or non-working bathrooms, and nearly 2 million California students share classrooms with roaches, mice or rats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s all a plot to get us to vote for vouchers? Woodchipper, anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&#8217;s L.A. Weekly (I was looking for a plastic surgeon, outcall escort, and a restaurant for dinner Saturday night&#8230;), Marc Cooper, no friend of the Republican party, goes after our education first, second and third Governor Skybox. A sample: But on the moral test of his own administration, the governor simply flunks out. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}