{"id":83889,"date":"2022-11-16T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83889"},"modified":"2022-11-16T07:36:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T13:36:21","slug":"for-the-children-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83889","title":{"rendered":"For The Children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The number of assaults on teachers in classrooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The superintendent\u2019s salary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The achievement gap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two of those numbers are getting worse. One of them is getting better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any guesses?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here you go:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"278\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/0532138b-e24e-413b-82e7-e64f3759492f-49156-00000aba6d396c52_file-1024x278.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83888\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/0532138b-e24e-413b-82e7-e64f3759492f-49156-00000aba6d396c52_file-1024x278.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/0532138b-e24e-413b-82e7-e64f3759492f-49156-00000aba6d396c52_file-300x81.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/0532138b-e24e-413b-82e7-e64f3759492f-49156-00000aba6d396c52_file-768x209.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/0532138b-e24e-413b-82e7-e64f3759492f-49156-00000aba6d396c52_file-1536x417.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/0532138b-e24e-413b-82e7-e64f3759492f-49156-00000aba6d396c52_file-500x136.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/0532138b-e24e-413b-82e7-e64f3759492f-49156-00000aba6d396c52_file.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There is, of course, a highly competitive market for Big city schools superintendents.  The market for \u201ctop\u201d candidates is incredibly competitive, and the salaries show it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve been trying to figure out why for a couple decades now. All of them talk about metrics that improve, but year over year things always get worse.<\/p><p><\/p><p>I\u2019m trying to figure out any other field were actual accomplishment plays no factor in skyrocketing salaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of assaults on teachers in classrooms. The superintendent\u2019s salary. The achievement gap. Two of those numbers are getting worse. One of them is getting better. Any guesses? Here you go: There is, of course, a highly competitive market for Big city schools superintendents. The market for \u201ctop\u201d candidates is incredibly competitive, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83889","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=83889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83890,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83889\/revisions\/83890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}