{"id":46224,"date":"2014-08-06T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46224"},"modified":"2014-08-06T11:03:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T16:03:23","slug":"the-school-board-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46224","title":{"rendered":"The School Board Of The Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Rochelle New York&#8217;s school board\u00a0cuts the crap and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrochelletalk.com\/content\/new-rochelle-board-education-declares-war-free-speech-bans-criticism-board-members-grants-ri\">moves to elminate public input at school board meetings<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In her first act as the newly elected senior board President, Merchant waited until the last minute to unveil sweeping changes to board policy that eliminates any guarantees of public input into school board meetings as what can only be seen as a prelude to eliminating entirely any public involvement in school board meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Beset by criticism over an unfolding story of corruption and incompetence on its watch, and infighting among its own members, the New Rochelle Board of Education last night proposed to &#8220;solve&#8221; that problem by severely curtailing public engagement during school board meetings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Minneapolis and Saint Paul would <em>never <\/em>do that.<\/p>\n<p>Would they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Rochelle New York&#8217;s school board\u00a0cuts the crap and moves to elminate public input at school board meetings: In her first act as the newly elected senior board President, Merchant waited until the last minute to unveil sweeping changes to board policy that eliminates any guarantees of public input into school board meetings as what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46224","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=46224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46226,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46224\/revisions\/46226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}