{"id":13397,"date":"2010-09-10T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13397"},"modified":"2014-10-02T10:20:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T15:20:00","slug":"emmer-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13397","title":{"rendered":"The Emmer Plan:  Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just so we&#8217;re clear on this: \u00a0Mark Dayton&#8217;s education &#8220;plan&#8221; calls for three things:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Gutting charter schools<\/li>\n<li>Ending federal-mandated testing<\/li>\n<li>Giving the teachers union a bunch of money.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>To contrast with this, Tom Emmer is releasing his own plan, as we speak.<\/p>\n<p>His education plan is focused on a few simple, key things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ensure that K-12 funding is held harmless in the next biennium.<\/li>\n<li>improve school results through broad reforms.<\/li>\n<li>cutting mandates on schools<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are also reforms including \u00a0initiatives related to teacher effectiveness, kindergarten readiness,and &#8211; this oughtta be interesting &#8211; the redesign of teacher preparation programs.<\/p>\n<p>And &#8211; this should play interestingly on the left &#8211; the state will repay the education shift to local school districts in accordance with state law.<\/p>\n<p>Expect the DFL to respond &#8220;we really need a huge increase&#8221;, and for the union to say the only &#8220;reform&#8221; needed is more union teachers.<\/p>\n<p>More later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just so we&#8217;re clear on this: \u00a0Mark Dayton&#8217;s education &#8220;plan&#8221; calls for three things: Gutting charter schools Ending federal-mandated testing Giving the teachers union a bunch of money. To contrast with this, Tom Emmer is releasing his own plan, as we speak. His education plan is focused on a few simple, key things: ensure that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[312],"class_list":["post-13397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","tag-mngov-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13397","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=13397"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13399,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13397\/revisions\/13399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}