{"id":53484,"date":"2015-05-22T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53484"},"modified":"2015-05-22T07:03:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T12:03:28","slug":"53484","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53484","title":{"rendered":"Against It Before They Were For It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>During the legislative session<\/strong>: The Senate DFL caucus joined with Senate Republicans to defeat Governor <del style=\"color: inherit;\">Flint-Smith&#8217;s<\/del> Dayton&#8217;s teachers union payoff (A.k.a. &#8220;early childhood education&#8221; bill) \u2013 a proposal that school districts don&#8217;t want, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53398\">research shows is at best useless for kids development<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now that the session is over, and the Senate election is in sight<\/strong>: The Senate DFL caucus is <a href=\"http:\/\/senatedfl.mn\/2015\/05\/20\/senators-stand-with-governor-dayton\/\">puckering up, and homing in on Governor Dayton&#8217;s hindquarters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One day after Governor Dayton announced he would be vetoing the legislature\u2019s $400 million E-12 bill, seven DFL State Senators have made it clear they won\u2019t be a road block to negotiations, saying they are in favor of the Governor\u2019s desire to fund a sustained commitment to early childhood education that works for all schools and includes flexibility.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reading the article \u2013 from the Senate DFL caucus communication office \u2013 it&#8217;s easy to see who the campaign is aimed at; people who want free stuff, and don&#8217;t really care how they get it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the legislative session: The Senate DFL caucus joined with Senate Republicans to defeat Governor Flint-Smith&#8217;s Dayton&#8217;s teachers union payoff (A.k.a. &#8220;early childhood education&#8221; bill) \u2013 a proposal that school districts don&#8217;t want, and research shows is at best useless for kids development. Now that the session is over, and the Senate election is in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53484","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=53484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53516,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53484\/revisions\/53516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}