{"id":52088,"date":"2015-03-19T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=52088"},"modified":"2015-03-18T21:42:01","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T02:42:01","slug":"rewarding-failure-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=52088","title":{"rendered":"Rewarding Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After four years of abject failure, the St. Paul public school district renewed superintendent Valeria Silva&#8217;s contract earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s a nice one, indeed:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3339.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3339.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3339.JPG\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy Bob Murphy<\/p><\/div>\n<p>8% over four years &#8211; which, with compounding, is over 10%.<\/p>\n<p>People who <a title=\"The News Isn\u2019t Nearly Bad Enough\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=50956\">are actually accomplishing anything<\/a> aren&#8217;t getting raises like that.<\/p>\n<p>Lousy graduation rates. Unchanged achievement gap.<\/p>\n<p>Money well spent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After four years of abject failure, the St. Paul public school district renewed superintendent Valeria Silva&#8217;s contract earlier this week. And it&#8217;s a nice one, indeed: 8% over four years &#8211; which, with compounding, is over 10%. People who are actually accomplishing anything aren&#8217;t getting raises like that. Lousy graduation rates. Unchanged achievement gap. Money [&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-52088","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\/52088","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=52088"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52108,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52088\/revisions\/52108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}