{"id":1848,"date":"2016-02-11T18:24:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T23:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/11\/charter-schools-needs-a-thorough-examination\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:28:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:28:04","slug":"charter-schools-needs-a-thorough-examination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/charter-schools-needs-a-thorough-examination\/","title":{"rendered":"Charter schools needs a thorough examination"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9411\" style=\"width: 205px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/paul-thomas.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9411\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9411 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/paul-thomas.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Paul Thomas\" width=\"195\" height=\"239\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 195px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 195\/239;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Paul Thomas<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There is a new report calling for South Carolina to increase the state\u2019s investment in charter schools. But Furman education professor Paul Thomas says the state needs to consider such a move carefully. In an <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2013\/12\/12\/3153730\/thomas-charter-schools-not-a-smart.html\">op-ed<\/a><\/b> for <i>The State<\/i> newspaper, he writes that South Carolina should take a comprehensive look at how charter schools perform, notably when compared to traditional public schools. National studies, Thomas says, have shown that charter schools produce about the same measurable outcomes as public schools while demonstrating some disturbing consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a new report calling for South Carolina to increase the state\u2019s investment in charter schools. But Furman education professor Paul Thomas says the state needs to consider such a move carefully. In an\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2013\/12\/12\/3153730\/thomas-charter-schools-not-a-smart.html\">op-ed<\/a><\/b>\u00a0for\u00a0<i>The State<\/i>\u00a0newspaper, he writes that South Carolina should take a comprehensive look at how charter schools perform, notably when compared to traditional public schools. National studies, Thomas says, have shown that charter schools produce about the same measurable outcomes as public schools while demonstrating some disturbing consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}