{"id":10853,"date":"2010-05-11T08:23:14","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T13:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10853"},"modified":"2010-05-11T08:23:14","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T13:23:14","slug":"minor-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10853","title":{"rendered":"Minor Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"

This story<\/a> caught me just a tad off-guard:<\/p>\n

Minnesota’s largest teachers union has thrown its support behind Democrat Margaret Anderson Kelliher’s campaign for governor.<\/p>\n

Education Minnesota endorsed Kelliher on Saturday after a yearlong search.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Normally I’d say “after a year-long search for what – someone who could spell?”, but this year is a little different.\u00a0 Matt Entenza founded MN2020 in large part to curry favor with public employees unions (leading to hatchet jobs like last\u00a0 year’s jihad against charter schools,<\/a> which beggared fact but, one would suspect, buffed his cred with the MFT.<\/p>\n

I’m going to guess that the union chose long-term political infrastructure over short-term favor-banking.<\/p>\n

I thought this was an interesting statement:<\/p>\n

Union president Tom Dooher said in a news release that Kelliher shares the union’s determination to create an education funding system that is sustainable and sufficient.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Huh?<\/p>\n

Achievement gap?\u00a0 Minority dropout rates?\u00a0 Bad math and science scores?<\/p>\n

No.\u00a0 Stable funding is the priority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This story caught me just a tad off-guard: Minnesota’s largest teachers union has thrown its support behind Democrat Margaret Anderson Kelliher’s campaign for governor. Education Minnesota endorsed Kelliher on Saturday after a yearlong search. Normally I’d say “after a year-long search for what – someone who could spell?”, but this year is a little different.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10860,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10853\/revisions\/10860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}