{"id":3275,"date":"2008-09-10T05:44:24","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T10:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3275"},"modified":"2008-09-10T05:44:24","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T10:44:24","slug":"the-way-the-wind-blows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3275","title":{"rendered":"The Way The Wind Blows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charter schools know their market.\u00a0 Increasingly, their market is low-income urban parents who are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcdailyplanet.net\/node\/14246\">disgusted with the performance<\/a> of their local public school districts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Minnesota Department of Education recently announced <a href=\"http:\/\/education.state.mn.us\/mde\/About_MDE\/News_Center\/Press_Releases\/032553\">the approval of 11 new charter schools state-wide<\/a>, eight of which will be opening in the Twin Cities or first-ring suburbs. This year\u2019s crop follows a current trend in charter schools: aggressively pursuing poor and low-income families who are dissatisfied and disillusioned with public school systems, particularly in Minneapolis. Six of the eight say they will explicitly market themselves to these families.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of eight Saint Paul families has deserted the public system; the number is higher in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charter schools know their market.\u00a0 Increasingly, their market is low-income urban parents who are disgusted with the performance of their local public school districts: The Minnesota Department of Education recently announced the approval of 11 new charter schools state-wide, eight of which will be opening in the Twin Cities or first-ring suburbs. This year\u2019s crop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275","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=3275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}