{"id":9924,"date":"2010-04-09T07:44:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T12:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9924"},"modified":"2010-04-09T07:44:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T12:44:43","slug":"strange-bedfellows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9924","title":{"rendered":"Strange Bedfellows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pawlenty and <em>Obama, <\/em>together <a href=\"http:\/\/rpc.blogrolling.com\/redirect.php?r=88370d263e9f366ef8fe8ef6dd3669f0&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fnorthstarliberty.blogspot.com\">against the teachers&#8217; unions?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Matt Abe writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Pawlenty administration and education reform advocates are finding themselves supporting some of the significant aspects of the Obama administration&#8217;s Race to the Top initiative, while many Democrats and the teachers unions, strong supporters of candidate Obama in 2008, oppose them, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alternative teacher licensure &#8211; allowing non-traditional candidates like mid-career professionals alternative paths to becoming licensed teachers<\/li>\n<li>Pay for performance &#8211; linking teacher pay to student performance, even more than Minnesota&#8217;s current, optional Q Comp program<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Conservatives generally and the Pawlenty administration in particular have been advocating for these types of reforms since at least the late 1990s. From the nation&#8217;s first charter school laws to replacing the process-oriented Profile of Learning with knowledge-based academic standards, to Q Comp, Minnesota has often led the way in education reform, rather than let itself be dragged by Washington, D.C. educrats to improving its public school system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to guess that if November goes badly, Obama will reverse course.<\/p>\n<p>But right now?\u00a0 It&#8217;s a start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pawlenty and Obama, together against the teachers&#8217; unions? Matt Abe writes: The Pawlenty administration and education reform advocates are finding themselves supporting some of the significant aspects of the Obama administration&#8217;s Race to the Top initiative, while many Democrats and the teachers unions, strong supporters of candidate Obama in 2008, oppose them, including: Alternative teacher [&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-9924","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\/9924","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=9924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9942,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9924\/revisions\/9942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}